Nunez v. Serpas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In support of their alternative ground, the appellees rely principally on the case of Cooley v. Broad, 29 La. Ann. 71, which held that an appeal will be dismissed where the transcript contains neither a note of evidence nor a statement of facts agreed on by the parties or made up by the judge of the lower court. “Of course, the holding in the Cooley case is now subject to the provisions of Act No. 234 of 1932 that ‘Whenever an appellant files an incomplete tran script.,. * * * ivhenever because of any error on the part of the Clerk of Court * * * a motion to dismiss his appeal is filed * * * by an ap-pellee, * * * charging and setting forth as grounds for dismissal any of the above reasons, no appellate court shall maintain said motion to dismiss, or dismiss the appeal, unless it first allow to the appellant at least two additional days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, to cure and correct any and all the informalities and irregularities alleged and complained of in the motion to dismiss * * (Italics ours.) * * * * * * “While we do not dispute the correctness of the allegations in these affidavits, we cannot determine the issue. thus raised by these ex parte statements. We must, therefore, grant the appellants additional time in which to-complete the record in this case. “For the reasons assigned, the appellants are ordered to complete the record by filing here the transcribed notes of evidence within twenty days from the date this judgment becomes final, and, in the event”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Murphy v. Miller · American Adjustment Co. v. Batiste