Brackenridge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1998
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
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““A county judge is entitled to demand and receive from the county the sum of three dollars for each criminal action tried and finally disposed of before him. Id. art. 1075. He is not entitled to said fee in a ease that is merely dismissed. A dismissal of a case is not a trial of it, within the meaning of the law. A dismissal of a case is to send it out of court without a trial upon any of the issues involved in it. It is a final disposition of that particular case, but not a trial of it. A final disposition of a case does not of itself entitle the county judge to the fee allowed by article 1075, supra. To entitle him to the fee, the case must have been tried and finally disposed of before him. He must both try and finally dispose of it. Such is the plain language of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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