Webster v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Thus, unlike the situation in Ray v. Bartolotta, 408 S.W.2d 838 (Mo.1966), where only one ground was offered in the new trial motion and thus was specified by the court's very act of sustaining it despite its silence as to its grant, the instant case yields no such presumption.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bishop v. Carper