Beesley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"1. That the relator resides in Marion County, in the State of Indiana, and is a taxpayer in said County and State. "2. That Lester R. Durham is a member of the Board of Commissioners of Marion County, Indiana, having been elected to such office in the year 1956, and having taken his oath of office on January 1st, 1957, and that his term of office will expire on December 31st, 1959. "3. That ever since January 1st, 1959, the said respondent Lester R. Durham, has refused and neglected to perform the official duties pertaining to his office, in this, to-wit: "A. That he has failed and refused to approve the bond of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion County, Indiana, despite the fact that he was mandated so to do, by the Circuit Court of Marion County, Indiana, as a result of which he was found guilty of being in contempt of said Circuit Court and fined the sum of $1,000.00. "B. That in consort with one Eph W. Virt, a former County Commissioner of Marion County, Indiana, now deceased, he held secret meetings, to the exclusion of County Commissioner J. Wesley Brown, as a result of which the respondent herein and the said Eph W. Virt, now deceased, signed illegal contracts, issued unauthorized and illegal purchasing orders, changed and altered contracts, all without the knowledge, consent or approval of County Commissioner, J.J. Wesley Brown and without informing the said commissioner of his actions. "C. Had ordered and issued purchase orders for road work in a manner not pr”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Ayer v. Ewing · State Ex Rel. Durham v. Marion Circuit Court

2. ““After hearing the evidence, the trial judge read his decision to the effect that there was insufficient evidence to sustain sixteen of the nineteen charges, and that there was evidence sufficient to sustain the other three charges, after which there was a judgment against the defendant. The written decision was relied upon by the defendant as a basis for a motion to modify the judgment so as to show the particular causes for removal found to have been established, and it is brought into the record by a bill of exceptions. The appellant does not set out the accusation against him in its entirety in his brief, and he brings into the brief only so much of the evidence as pertains to the three specifications upon which the trial court found against him. The appellee concedes that, in announcing the decision from the bench, the trial court found against the defendant upon three specifications only, and that the evidence respecting these three is in the brief. It is contended, however, that under the rules of civil procedure, the written decision is not a part of the record, and that, since all the evidence in the ease is not set out in the brief, we cannot consider the evidence, and that, since the accusation in its entirety is not set out, we cannot consider the sufficiency of the accusation. “Proceedings under the statute are to be conducted in a summary manner, and the ordinary rules of civil procedure do not apply to the procedure in the trial court, and no good reason is see”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Indiana v. Beth A. Neff · 128 Ind. App. 104 - Annexation of Certain Territory v. City of Princeton

3. “from the time the accusation was presented”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Durham v. Marion Circuit Court