Pleasant v. State’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. ““Where petitioner for case made forma pauperis alleged that he had no funds for appeal, but did not categorically state that he had no relatives or friends from whom he could get money to pay for a record, and did not allege that his trial counsel could not state evidence from memory in narrative form; trial court did not, under the circumstances, abuse its discretion in refusing to order record for appeal at expense of county.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gresham v. Page

2. ““Under the circumstances of this cause, where no motion for new trial or notice of appeal is given within the statutory time, and where the application for forma pauperis case made contains no supporting proof of poverty, this Court will not set aside the rulings of the trial court and issue a Writ of Mandamus.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Taylor v. State