Holman v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appellant complains by assignment of error that the trial court lost jurisdiction of the motion and discontinuance ensued because on July 9, 1962, the date the motion was heard and submitted, the trial court failed ‘to make and enter some ruling on the motion for a new trial or some order continuing the motion for a new trial to a future date.’ “The trial court entered an order in writing on July 28, 1962, a copy of which appears, supra. “The undisputed recitation by the trial court, supra, that the motion was heard on the appointed date, July 9, 1962, and taken under consideration, we take to be true. When the motion was heard and submitted as stated by the trial court, the issue presented was in the breast of the court until September 12, 1962, when a judgment on the motion was duly entered. “Under such circumstances as the record here presents a written order of submission of the motion for consideration or advisement on the part of the court at the time of submission, although advisable for clarity of the record, was not necessary to preserve the integrity or life of the motion. Nor was an order of continuance necessary. The demands of law were met when the trial judge took .submission of the motion, and later, prior to judgment, let the record show such submission at the time fixed by prior order of continuance.” (277 Ala. at pages 314 and 315, 169 So.2d at page 432 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rayburn v. Rayburn