Branson v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
April 1986
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fisher v. Gunn · Brooks v. General Motors Assembly Division · Forbis v. Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. · State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Sheets
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A frivolous appeal is “one presenting no justiciable question and so readily recognizable as devoid of merit on face of record that there is little prospect that it can ever succeed.” (Citation omitted.) To avoid the penalty “the questions raised on appeal must be at least fairly debatable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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