Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 29 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Party, A person concerned or having or taking part in any affair, matter, transaction or proceedings, considered individually. Parties. The persons who take part in the performance of any act, or who are directly interested in any affair, contract, or conveyance, or who are actively concerned in the prosecution and defense of any legal proceeding (cases cited)”. Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Ed. 1275, 1278. “Party, One concerned in or privy to a matter, as in the relation of accessory or confidant; as, he also was a party to the affair.” Funk & Wagnall’s Standard Dictionary, Twentieth Century Edition, p. 1287. “Party, * * * in a more general sense, one indirectly so disclosed as being directly interested in the subject matter of the suit, or as having power to make a defense, control the proceedings, or appeal from the judgment; * * Webster’s New International Dictionary, p. 1574. “In a larger legal sense the term ‘party’ or ‘parties’ has been defined as any or all persons who have a right to control the proceedings, to make defense, to adduce and cross-examine witnesses, and to appeal from the decision, if an appeal lies, * * * A ‘party’ has also been defined as ‘ordinarily one who claims an interest in the subject of an action or proceeding instituted to afford some relief to the one who sets the law in motion against another person or persons;’ one who appears as an actor in a litigation or proceeding and claims or asserts an interest in the subject matter thereof.” 67 C.J.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fong Sik Leung v. Dulles