Arnold v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

56 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Aside from the impropriety of the motion for the appeal, — since it was not made at the same term at which the judgment was rendered — the order granting it was absolutely null as the appeal was not taken within the year allowed by Article 593 of the Code of Practice. It is now firmly established that the provision in Article 593 that ‘No appeal will lie, * * * after a year has expired’ is prohibitory; that the appellate court does not acquire jurisdiction of appeals which have not been taken and perfected by the filing of bond within the prescribed time and that it is the duty of the court to dismiss such appeals ex proprio motu. Untereiner v. Miller, 29 La. Ann. 435 ; Lafayette v. Farr, 162 La. 385 , 110 So. 624 ; Mount Olive Baptist Church v. New Zion Baptist Church, 198 La. 896 , 5 So.2d 144 , and Dickerson v. Hudson, 201 La. 915 , 10 So.2d 700 .” (Footnotes omitted.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Piper v. Central Louisiana Electric Co.