Garrett v. Peirce’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “As an ordinary rule a mere change in the membership of an appellate tribunal ought not to reopen in the same case questions once settled by it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 346 Ill. App. 72 - Glasser v. Essaness Theatres Corp.