State ex rel. Evans v. Broaddus’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (and herein of the office of the writ of certiorari). “(a) At this late day the right and duty of this court, as the repository of final, superintending and supervising judicial power over other courts, .to bring up their records by certiorari and set aside and quash orders and judgments either outside or in excess of their jurisdiction, ought not in reason to be questioned. It is a power well and plainly lodged in the Constitution. . . . It is a necessary and useful power, to the end that there may be uniformity in the general law — i. e., one rule of law in all courts of the State and that all should harmoniously move in a prescribed and known orbit as near as may be. [State ex rel. Curtis v. Broaddus, 238 Mo. 189 .] “(b) Where an appeal or writ of error does not lie, as here, certiorari does not go as of right, but it goes in such cases in order that profert of the challenged record be made to be searched for jurisdictional defects — that is, orders, judgments and parts of judgments without (or in excess of) the jurisdiction of the subordinate court making or rendering them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 225 Mo. App. 139 - State Ex Rel. Lindsay v. Kansas City