Travis v. Skinner’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. ““If the cost of the repairs or rebuilding of this bridge exceeds $1,000, — and from the opinion of the commissioner it appears that it would cost $1,500 to make it reasonably safe for public travel, — then the only duty devolving upon the commissioner was to report the facts to the township clerk, whose duty it is to lay it before the township board, and they may submit the question for raising such moneys to a vote of the electors of the township.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kingsley v. Nyland