Patton v. Colbert County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Colbert County, Alabama, awarding appellants $275 for property condemned for highway construction purposes. “The appellee moved to affirm the judgment appealed from in this cause for want of legal assignment of errors * * * “The assignment of errors must he written on the transcript before the errors will be considered by this court. Supreme Court Rule 1, Code 1940, Tit. 7 Appendix. An assignment of errors, made on a separate sheet of paper, which is attached to a page of the transcript with gummed tape, subject to easy detachment and removal, does not comply with this court rule, and in such case there is nothing before this court to be considered. Gates Lumber Co. v. Givens, 181 Ala. 670 , 61 So. 330 ; Pugh v. Hardman, 151 Ala. 248 , 44 So. 389 ; Hunter v. Louisville & N. R. Co., 150 Ala. 594 , 43 So. 802 [9 L.R.A.,N.S., 848]; Mitchell v. Marshall County Livestock Market, 32 Ala.App. 42 , 21 So.2d 446 ; Skinner v. Jackson, 28 Ala.App. 227 , 182 So. 92 , certiorari denied 236 Ala. 310 , 182 So. 93 ; Moon v. J. E. Butler & Co., 9 Ala.App. 438 , 62 So. 1019 .” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Strange v. King