Wooldridge v. Roller’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1935
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
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““If the proof of inability is made in the court trying the case while in session, the contest shall be before it; if before the judge of the county court of the county where appellant resides, then it shall be before the judge, of the county court‘in which the case is tried. The proof in the first instance, it is clear, consists simply of the affidavit of the party. But must this affidavit be made before the county judge, or is it sufficient to present to him the affidavit of appellant to the facts, made before some other officer authorized to administer oaths? The former course certainly seems to. us more direct and simple. But if the affidavit may be made before some one else, it must be presented to the county judge, and he must certify that the fact required to be verified by the affidavit had been proved before him; and then the affidavit and certificate of the county judge must be filed with the clerk or the court in which the case is tried, in time to perfect the appeal. When thus filed, this proof of appellant’s inability to give security may be contested before the judge of the county court of that county.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Arledge““Such proof shall be made before the county judge of the county where such party resides, or before the court trying the case, and shall consist of the affidavit of said party, stating his inability to pay the costs; which affidavit may be contested by any officer of the court or party to the suit, whereupon it shall be the duty of the' court trying the case, if in session, or the county judge of the county in which the suit is pending, to hear evidence and to determine the right of the party, under this article, to his appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Arledge
How this case has been treated — in progress
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