Brewen v. Leachman’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The separation of plaintiff’s real estate into three distinct parcels by officials of St. Louis County government was beyond plaintiffs control, knowledge, or reasonable suspicion. The coding of two of the parcels for computer purposes as “non-mailable” in spite of the sequential numbering with the “mailable” parcel was a blunder that could not be explained by representatives of the Collector’s office. A portion of the opinion in Harness v. Cravens, supra, which was quoted in Rottjakob, supra, 400, is particularly apposite here: “I for one will never say that this old man is to be robbed of his land through the neglects and blunders of the state’s chosen agents. Others are bound by the acts and blunders of their agents, and I know of neither rule nor reason which prevents the state from being likewise bound in similar circumstances”. So it should be here.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Westhouse v. Ray