Coleman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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

1. ““And we think this statute, which is to suspend and supersede, without an indemnifying security, the execution of judgments and decrees, by which the rights of parties have been determined after judicial investigation, ought not to be strained by construction so as to reach cases not within the plain meaning of its terms.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Barkley