240 So. 2d 606 - Jackson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"`The failure to file this brief (by the appellee) is tantamount to a confession of error, and will be accepted as such and the judgment of the court below will be reversed, since an answer to the appellant's brief cannot be safely made by us, without our doing that which the appellee, by its attorney, should have done, i.e., brief the appellee's side of the case. This we are not called on to do, therefore the case falls within, and is governed by, W.T. Raleigh Co. v. Armstrong, 165 Miss. 380 , 140 So. 527 .'" [Quoting from Gulf M. & O. RR v. Webster County, 194 Miss. 660 , 13 So.2d 644 (1943)]. 204 So.2d at 852-853 .”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. v. Rogers · 298 So. 2d 676 - First Mobile Home Corporation v. Little

2. “Automatic reversal is not required where the appellee fails to file a brief. The appellant's argument "should at least create enough doubt in the judiciousness of the trial court's judgment that this Court cannot `say with confidence that the case should be affirmed.'" Where the appellant's brief makes out an apparent case of error, however, this Court is not obligated to look to the record to find a way to avoid the force of the appellant's argument.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 813 So. 2d 753 - Conservator of Eldridge v. Sparkman · 767 So. 2d 277 - Graham v. Graham