Hunt v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In legal contemplation land can not be assessed, appraised, or valued, nor can compensation or damages be awarded therefor, except in money. . . . Dollars are the legal money units of this country, made so by the laws of the United States. . . . Hence, whenever figures are used intending to represent money, such figures must, of course, be understood to represent ‘dollars,’ unless a different intention is clearly expressed. The point or dot, resembling a period in punctuation, separating certain figures on the right from those on the left, is the decimal point. It makes the figures on the fight decimals of a unit of whatever is intended to be expressed by those on the left. Those on the left, as we have already seen, are intended to represent dollars, hence those on the right must represent decimals of dollars. As only two figures on the right are thus separated from the others, these two figures must represent hundredths of dollars; or, in other words, ‘cents.’ This is well settled by almost universal usage everywhere in the United States.” (p. 152.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re McLean