Schlessinger v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““It is a general rule that all judicial business must be transacted in court, unless the statute expressly provides otherwise; and the doctrine is well settled that a judge out of court has no authority to perform strictly judicial business, or to make decisions or orders which, for their validity, depend upon the judicial power of the court, unless expressly authorized by statute to do so.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barrett v. Whitmore

2. ““The extent to which’that statute goes, as we have endeavored to show, is only to change the character of the order, when properly entered, from its former standing as a chambers order to an order of court, but it does not incorporate such an order into the records of a regular or special term. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boulter v. Cook