Graske v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““In recent years statutes waiving governmental immunity from suit have been more broadly and liberally interpreted. * * * The desirability of avoiding multiplicity of litigation, especially when both claims arise from the same transaction, seems obvious. * * * Nor is it necessarily an objection that if a counterclaim of this type is allowed to be asserted, one claim may have to be tried by the court and the other by the jury. * * * “Notwithstanding these considerations, the court considers itself bound by the Nipissing Mines case, supra, decided by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1913, and indistinguishable from the case at bar. Cf. United States v. Wissahickon Tool Works, supra, 84 F.Supp. at page 902 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Carey Terminal Corp.