Conrod v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis

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19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]ny body politic or body corporate other than the state responsible for governmental activities only in geographic areas smaller than that of the state, including but not limited to, any county, municipality, school district, community hospital as defined in Section 41-13-10, Mississippi Code of 1972, airport authority or other instrumentality thereof, whether or not such a body or instrumentality thereof has the authority to levy taxes or to sue or be sued in its own name.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 927 So. 2d 733 - Brown v. Thompson

2. “The venue for any suit filed under the provisions of this chapter against the state or its employees shall be in the county in which the act, omission or event on which the liability phase of the action is based, occurred, or took place. The venue for all other suits filed under the provisions of this chapter shall be in the county or judicial district thereof in which the principal offices of the governing body of the political subdivision are located.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brooks v. Pennington

3. “there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ralph Arnold Smith, Jr v. James M. Hood, III