Combs v. Wooton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is plain from the foregoing quotations that this court has always treated procedural matters in connection with appeal with great liberality and that strict compliance with provisions of the Civil Code that deal with actions in the circuit court has not been required and any statement or petition filed by the person appealing from the order of the county court, or even a bare filing of a transcript of the proceeding in the circuit court, has been adjudged sufficient. In most of the cases above quoted, however, the appellant filed some statement setting forth the ground of his complaint concerning the action of the county court. This court having permitted the appellant broad latitude concerning the kind, type, and method of appeal which he might select, will not hold the appel-lee to the strict compliance with all technical procedure applicable in the ordinary case that originates in the circuit court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dennison v. Roberts