Willie v. B Hunt’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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Consent decrees are entered into by parties to a case after careful negotiation has produced agreement on their precise terms. The parties waive their right to litigate the issues involved in the case and thus save themselves the time, expense, and inevitable risk of litigation. Naturally, the agreement reached normally embodies a compromise; in exchange for the saving of cost and elimination of risk, the parties each give up something they might have won had they proceeded with the litigation. Thus the decree itself cannot be said to have a purpose; rather the parties have purposes, generally opposed to each other, and the resultant decree embodies as much of those opposing purposes as the respective parties have the bargaining power and skill to achieve. For these reasons, the scope of a consent decree must be discerned within its four corners, and not by reference to what might satisfy the purposes of one of the parties to it.” (Emphases in original.) United States v. Armour & Co., 402 U.S. 673, 681-82 , 29 L. Ed. 2d 256, 263 , 91 S. Ct. 1752, 1757 (1971).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 219 Ill. 2d 182 - Price v. Philip Morris, Inc.

2. “[t]he issue before the district court was the proper construction of a disputed provision in a consent judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Arvinger v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore