Walker v. McKemie’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The failure, however, to do so .did not render the record evidence offered incompetent, for it is a rule recognized by high authority that the absence of an entire record may be supplied by recitals in the judgment or decree of all the essential facts, jurisdictional or otherwise; that where the judgment or decree on which the party adducing it in a collateral action relies as a muniment of title or as a link in a chain of title recites all the essential facts, jurisdictional or otherwise, in regard to the proceedings in which it was rendered, the record of such judgment or decree, or a duly authenticated copy thereof, is admissible as prima facie evidence at least, without producing a complete record or transcript of the proceedings.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Daugherty v. Feland