Hoeper v. Liley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The trial court is considered an expert on fees, given its familiarity with all of the issues in the case and with the character of the legal services rendered,' and 'may determine attorney fees without the aid of evidence.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rita Lynne Terpstra v. State of Missouri, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Commission

2. “unless there is no substantial evidence to support it, unless it is against the weight of the evidence, unless it erroneously declares the law, or unless it erroneously applies the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bartsch v. BMC Farms, LLC

3. “'decision was against the logic of the circumstances and so arbitrary and unreasonable as to shock one's sense of justice.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rita Lynne Terpstra v. State of Missouri, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Commission