Evans v. Cavanagh’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘We cannot doubt but that this question was improper. The witness was thus permitted to take» into consideration all the evidence in the case given upon a long trial, extending over nine days, and, upon so much of it as he could recollect, determine for himself the credibility of the witnesses, the probability or improbability of their statements, and, drawing therefrom such inferences as, in his judgment, were warranted by it, pronounce upon the sanity or insanity of the defendant. It cannot be questioned but that the witness was by the question put in the place of the jury, and was allowed to determine, upon his own judgment, what their verdict ought to be in the case.’ ” 58 Idaho 332 , 73 P.2d 86 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Formont v. Kircher

2. “bit, consuming a period of approximately 20 minutes. This court, among other things, recognized that the decedent received an injury caused by an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. In 1939, Sec. 72-201, I.C., was for the first and only time amended. In the amendment, among other things, the Legislature for the first time defined the word”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunn v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.