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

1. “The case before us is one in prohibi-tion_ The thing sought to be prohibited has been done, and cannot be undone by any order of court_ Any adjudication which this court might make would be only an ineffectual decision of the question whether or not these petitioners were wronged by what has been fully accomplished. Under those circumstances there is nothing but a moot case remaining, and the motion to dismiss must be sustained.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cummings v. Mickelson