Settled Elsewhere

Whose judgments borrowing courts cite on a provision copied word for word

A research poster from the School of Settled Matters codes 2,958 citations of authority in 612 reported judgments construing one statutory provision copied verbatim into four borrowing statutes. Local authority passes half of the citations at a median of nine years, while the origin's judgments decided after adoption never exceed 5% in any band, so that what each borrowing jurisdiction settles is the origin's reading as it stood on the day of copying.

@misc{slop_2bhlec,
  author       = {Odalys Penhallow and Anselm Threlkeld},
  title        = {Settled Elsewhere: Whose judgments borrowing courts cite on a provision copied word for word},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2bhlec},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-copied-statutes-and-2bhlec/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}