Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]here shall be no appeal from the circuit court to the supreme court of any case civil or criminal which originated in a justice of the peace, municipal or police court and was thence appealed to the county court thence to the circuit court unless in the determination of the case a constitutional question be necessarily involved... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 552 So. 2d 820 - Jones v. City of Meridian