Pearson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 2 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * *. So, a party desiring to prosecute an appeal in forma pauperis should first make application to that end in the circuit court, and if it is denied and he desires to pursue the matter further, to file in this court a certified copy of that record of the circuit court and a motion for a rule against the clerk or official stenographer or both to show cause why they or either of them should not furnish without cost to the appellant such parts of the record in the principal case as it is their duty to prepare and furnish. If satisfied prima facie of the movant’s right, this court will issue a rule and consider the response of the officials and take such action as is deemed proper on the showing made. Marcum v. Wallace, 240 Ky. 444 , 42 S.W.2d 531 ; McIntosh v. Armour & Co., 279 Ky. 517 , 131 S.W.2d 393 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robinson v. Pound