Mitchell v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The true rule of damage we think [is that] if the encumbrance be of a permanent character . . . and cannot be removed by the purchaser as a matter of right, the damages will be measured by the diminished value of the premises thereby occasioned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1991 Conn. Super. Ct. 1299 - First Conn. Bus. Invest. v. Shillea, No. Cv 85-0222250 S (Feb. 20, 1991)