Lewis v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We hold that the court reporter has no authority to require a deposit before transcribing the testimony for appeal. The legislature has protected the court reporter against an appellant’s abandoning the appeal without paying for the transcript by requiring an appeal bond for ‘all costs due by the appellant,’ C.C.P. 2124. (Here, $250 cash was posted.) Perhaps the reporter may await filing of the bond before transcribing the testimony (or request the judge to increase the bond in an appropriate situation), but the reporter may not refuse to transcribe the testimony once bond has been posted. “The court reporter’s failure to transcribe the testimony is therefore not attributable to any fault of appellant, nor is the clerk’s consequential inability to prepare and file the record.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Geisinger v. East Jefferson General Hospital