Hull, Lanier & Co. v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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. “an answer should never be held frivolous, and judgment given in disregard of it, unless, as stated in some of the New York cases, it be so clearly and palpably bad as to require no argument or illustration to show its character, or, in other words, such as to be capable of being pronounced frivolous or indicative of bad faith in the pleader on bare inspection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bank v. . Atkinson