Baker v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““First. The party files in the clerk’s office his notice and motion and request for the transcript of evidence (sections-71 and 490). Next, the court in answer to his motion fixes a time, not more than fifty days in the future, at which the party must file in the clerk’s office his bill and transcript (section 490). By section 71 it is made the duty of the stenographer to deliver the transcript to the party or his attorney within the time fixed for the party to file it, but in no case later than forty days from the filing of the request. No act of the court is required to direct the stenographer. The statute-defines his duty when the court has fixed the time within which the party must act. “This is the ordinary and normal course of procedure contemplated by the statute, and there is no provision in any case by which the court can directly extend the time for filing the bill of exceptions beyond fifty days from the date of the notice. It may, however, often be impossible to procure the transcript for filing within the fifty days or the period fixed, and section 72 is designed to remedy this difficulty. It gives the court the-power, for cause, to grant an extension of time for filing the-transcript beyond the time originally fixed. “ When an extension of time for filing the transcript is given, the statute again, without action by the court, fixes the time-for filing the bill of exceptions within ten days from the expiration of the extended time to file the transcript. “In the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Horton v. Amoral