Scott v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . The record does not show any stipulation of counsel, nor order of court, allowing additional time, nor any time beyond the statutory 60 days, in which to file the transcript of the testimony. In this situation of the case, the evidence is not a part of the record, and we are without any means whatever to determine the correctness of the assignments of error, based, as they are, wholly upon the testimony. [Citing cases]. The qualified approval by the judge of the purported transcript of the testimony was ineffectual to impart any vitality or validity to the paper. How can we say the court erred, without the facts or the means of knowing them? We cannot presume error. It is a law proceeding, and we adjudge error only on an affirmative showing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Primrock v. Wilson