Ramsay v. Gottsche’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 state decisions

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

1. ““ ‘A judgment may be carried over the term by a motion to vacate or modify it, filed upon notice at the term at which it was rendered. Such is the case here, as the motion to modify, with due notice thereof, was filed during the term, although not granted until a subsequent term, and this is sufficient to warrant the court to grant the relief at the ensuing term. Black, Judgm. § 310; Goddard v. Ordway, 101 U.S. 745 , 25 L.Ed. 1040 ; Smith v. Best, 42 Mo. 185 . As the motion to modify the judgment in the case at bar, with the supporting affidavits, was filed upon due notice to the plaintiff below, at the term at which the judgment was assailed was rendered, the motion by adjournment was carried over the term, and the action of the district court at its following term, in passing upon the motion, must be sustained.’ ””

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