Bevis v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““A careful scrutiny of the pleadings has convinced us the effect of respondent’s answer is to urge failure of consideration for the instrument sued upon.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bevis v. Alexander