Lewis v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If there had been a valid dissolution, it would be ' unavailing to the appellants so far as the church property is concerned; for if all the members of the Centre Street Church had repudiated its constitutional dependence and connections and gone north, they could not have taken the property with them, but would have left it as dedicated, to the use and control of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. And just so the seceding appellants left it to the exclusive use of the adhering appellees as abiding members of the Southern Church. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clay v. Crawford