In Re Stiers’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It is an elementary proposition of law that the state cannot appeal either in civil or criminal actions unless such right is given by the lawmaking power of the state. It is apprehended that the reason for such a policy is built upon the idea that when the state in its sovereign capacity brings a citizen into its own tribunals, before its own officers, and in obedience to its own processes, and loses, that its avenging hand should be stayed except in unusual cases where the power to appeal is expressly conferred. The right of appeal is given the state in C.S., 215, but C.S., 215 is a part of chapter 941 of the Public Laws of 1907, which committed disbarment proceedings, for causes therein specified, to the initiative of the Grievance Committee of the North Carolina State Bar Association. Chapter 64 of the Public Laws of 1929, in accordance with which the present proceeding was conducted, is a complete act in itself and confers no right or power of appeal upon the state. . . ." 204 N.C. 49 -50, 167 S.E. 383 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Suspension of the Right to Practice Law of Palmer · In re the Suspension of the Right to Practice Law of Palmer