Central Railroad v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““Where a principle has been settled by a unanimous judgment of a full bench, without any observance of the conditions of section 217 of the Code, or without any reference to the first judgment, as sometimes unavoidably happens, we do not intimate an opinion as to which ruling, the first or the last, we would be obliged to follow.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Myrick v. Heard