Gray v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While undoubtedly it has been more than once held, from the numerous citations in defendant-in-error’s brief, that in order to give jurisdiction to the appellate court of the case on appeal, the record minutes must show that an appeal was both prayed for and granted, yet in the ease of Bank [of Charleston] v. Johnston, 105 Tenn. 521 , 59 S. W. 131 , it was held that this need not be directly shown by the entry; that one of these essential facts (and by a parity of reasoning both of them) may be shown indirectly in, that where the final decree recites prayer for appeal, and gives time to ‘make and file an appeal bond,’ bond being afterwards given, it sufficiently shows that the appeal was granted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Duke v. Scott

2. ““We think that the allowance of time by the Chancellor for the defendant to give bond is equivalent to a recital that the appeal was granted, for otherwise the chancellor would certainly not have given time to make the appeal bond; so that we hold that the appeal in this case was granted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Duke v. Scott