Penfield v. Sowel’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"This question must be determined from the entire record of this suit. The pertinent part of the record contains plaintiffs' petition, the answer of the defendant, concise and well written reasons of the trial judge for his final decree, in which said written reasons he gives a complete summary of the facts, his conclusions of these facts, a discussion of the contentions of the parties and the law involved, and the final decree rendered by virtue of these written reasons. It may be stated at this time that the record lacks a transcript of the evidence taken at the trial. However, we can, and we will, consider the written reasons of the trial judge contained in the record as a `statement of facts' as required by Code of Practice, Article 603, it being sufficient to determine the question involved in this case." (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fairman v. Robert