Carter v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Of course, if the bond was timely filed, the clerk of court thereafter became the official custodian thereof. Penalty for its loss or destruction should not be visited upon the appellant, who, so far as the record discloses, is not at fault. However, as the giving and filing of acceptable appeal bond is an indispensable prerequisite to divesting the trial court of jurisdiction, as well as vesting such in the appellate court, the bond itself or a copy should always be in the record on appeal to there warrant consideration of the case. If neither the original nor a copy of the bond can be produced, *Page 732 then its execution, its filing with the clerk of court, with date thereof, the approval thereof by that official, the name of the surety, etc., should be established contradictorily with the appellee in order that the appeal may be passed upon. When this has been done the record supplemented thereby is made complete. "The motion to dismiss the appeal is denied. It will be remanded for completion. "For the reasons herein assigned, this case is hereby remanded to the lower court to the end that the record may be completed by pursuing one of the methods herein named; and when the record has been completed in keeping therewith, it should be returned to this court for final disposition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 8 So. 2d 731 - Carter v. Chambers