Storey v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ The sole object of the section is to prevent unnecessary delay against a part of defendants by reason of a defense interposed by others. The plaintiff might have- proceeded against Hale alone, but it was for him to elect whether he would do so or not.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beals v. Smith