Shafer v. Hewitt’s Empirical Analysis

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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 defendants also complain that their motion for a new trial was set for hearing without notice to them or their counsel. It was the defendants who filed the motion for a new trial, and whatever notice of its filing was necessary must have been given by them to the adverse party. The Code provides that such a motion shall be heard at the earliest period practicable after its filing. It is to be supposed that the defendants would have looked after their own motion, and known when it was set for hearing. We have been referred to no law, and we know of none, which entitles them to the notice, the want of which they assign for error.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burnham v. Spokane Mercantile Co.