Beene v. Pardue’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In other words, it (the court of appeal) may issue writs and orders to sustain or enforce its appellate jurisdiction but it cannot issue orders designed to controvert or destroy its jurisdiction."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beene v. Pardue · Ilardo v. Agurs

2. “"It is now well settled in the jurisprudence of this State that the record, as made up, must show that the value of the thing in contest exceeds $2,000, exclusive of interest, in order to vest this Court with appellate jurisdiction and that the appellate jurisdiction of the case must be determined from the record presented."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beene v. Pardue

3. “"Once this Court has transferred a case to a court of appeal that court must entertain the appeal. The decision of this Court in that respect is final and cannot be circumvented."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beene v. Pardue