Sarfert Co. v. Chipman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““By the first paragraph quoted, the statute provides that ‘for entering any return, rule, order, continuance, judgment, decree or recognizance, or drawing any bond or making any order, certificate, return or report,’ a charge shall be made at the rate of 15 cents a folio. “The acts here contemplated are original in their nature. They are such and only such as occur and are required to be performed in the progress of the cause. They ■constitute the recorded entries of the court’s doings and of the court’s orders and judgments, both interlocutory and final. They are original acts in the sense of being the first of their character or in their ■order, and in the sense of deriving their ■origin from no previous record. They are original in the sense employed in several of the cases cited, in that they require original thought and judgment to make them conform precisely to the things done or ordered. They have to do with the building of a record, which must accurately and fully disclose the acts and rulings of the court upon the matter in controversy. They are, therefore, of a higher dignity and impose a greater responsibility in their performance than acts contemplated by the second paragraph quoted from the statute. “The second paragraph provides that ‘for making a copy of any (entry or) record, or any paper on file,’ the fee therefor shall be at the rate of 10 cents per folio. “This paragraph contemplates services of a lesser grade for which smaller fees are to be charged, based”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Visking Corp.