Woods v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “Construing the two sections together, it must be held that the latter [the pauper statute] applies only to the court in which the suit is commenced, and authorizes its prosecution to final judgment there.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Life & Casualty Ins. v. Walters