Brown v. . Becknall’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “One who sleeps on his right for ten years either has arranged it in some way or ought to lose it because of his negligence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bunn v. . Braswell