State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Such papers, unless authenticated by the certificate of the trial judge and brought into the record upon proper bill of exceptions or statement of facts settled upon notice, cannot be considered, because in no other way can it be determined that they formed any part of the proceedings below, or that the attention of the trial court was ever directed to them. . . . It is not enough that such papers had been'filed by counsel with the clerk of the superior court. It does not follow from such findings that the court’s attention has been directed to them. The act of filing is ex parte and all such papers (other than the technical record or judgment roll) upon which reliance is had in this court, or to which the attention of this court is to be directed upon appeal, should be brought into the record by an appropriate bill of exceptions or statement of facts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. F. Chevalier & Co. v. Wilson

2. ““It is not enough that such papers have been filed by counsel with the clerk of the superior court . . . The act of filing is ex parte and all such papers (other than the technical record or judgment roll) upon which reliance is had in this court, or to which the attention of this court is to be directed upon appeal, should be brought into the record by an appropriate bill of exceptions or statement of facts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Lee Wing Wah