Knowles v. Rowell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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 endorsement on the back of the writ forms no part of the writ or of the declaration. It is in effect a bond that the endorser will be responsible to the defendant for costs on certain contingencies. And so the endorsement of the name of the officer who served the writ, on the back of the summons, is required by the statute for the information of the defendant, but forms no part of the summons itself.” Sec. 5, chap. 204, General Statutes, provides that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White v. Taylor