Prasse v. Prasse’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Justice demands that the litigation of a controversy must reach an end. After a case has been finally determined by this court, it is fundamental that the trial court is bound to follow our directions. After it has done so, then to permit the same controversy to be kept alive and to be repeatedly shuttled back to this court for further review and back to the trial court for further action would interminably postpone its reaching an end.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McIntosh v. Wiggins

2. ““Appellant objects because no hearing or trial was had by the circuit court before the entry of its judgment on our mandate. As the directions of the mandate were specific and called for no further trial, the circuit court was not required to give any notice or grant any hearing before entering the judgment as directed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re the Marriage of Hughes

3. “where a case is reversed and remanded with specific directions to enter a certain judgment and the trial court entered judgment, on a second appeal taken from that judgment the only question before the Supreme Court is whether or not the judgment entered by the trial court was in conformity with the mandate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Drake v. Hicks