Owens v. Boling’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Counsel may not waive the rules of this Court. In re Suggs, 238 N.C. 413 , 78 S.E. 2d 157 ; Jones v. Jones, 232 N.C. 518, 61 S.E. 2d 335 ; State v. Butner, 185 N.C. 731 , 117 S.E. 163 . Consequently, it was beyond the authority of the attorneys to bypass a term. Mimms v. R. R., 183 N.C. 436 , 111 S.E. 778 . ‘The rules of practice in the Supreme Court are mandatory, not directory, and must be uniformly enforced. . . . Neither the judges, nor the solicitors, nor the attorneys, nor the parties have any right to ignore or dispense with the rules requiring such docketing within the time prescribed. ... If the rules are not observed the Court may ex mero motu dismiss the appeal.’ Stone v. Ledbetter, 191 N.C. 777, 779 , 133 S.E. 162, 163 . In Kernodle v. Boney, 260 N.C. 774 , 133 S.E. 2d 697 , the defendant-appellant’s delay in docketing carried the case beyond the Spring Term at which it should have been heard. This Court, ex mero motu, dismissed that appeal. . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carter v. State Board of Alcoholic Control