Stevens v. Record’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When one of several judgment [debtors] ex contractu pays the whole amount, he may recover contribution of the others . . . The suit is the ordinary one for contribution where one has paid under legal compulsion, for another, what was the duty of the latter to pay.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bragdon v. Worthley