Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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. ““In our decision denying respondent’s motion to dismiss appeal and granting, in part, appellant’s motion for allowances, 59 Nev. 163 , 87 P.2d 800, 805 , we included the following sentence: ‘Reasonable time after compliance with said order for allowances will be allowed appellant by the district court for preparing, filing and serving proposed bill of exceptions, and for taking such other steps as may be required to complete the bringing of her appeal to this court.’ Respondent filed a petition for rehearing, which was granted. On the rehearing it was shown that appellant’s time for filing and serving-bill of exceptions had been extended several times by the district court; but had expired, without stipulation for further time, on February 28th, 1939, four days before said decision of this court was filed. It further appears that, after the petition for rehearing was filed but before it was granted, appéllant, in the district court, noticed a motion for an order relieving her from her default in failing to secure an extension of time within which to file a bill of exceptions, the motion being based upon the ground that such failure was the result of mistake, inadvertence and excusable neglect. “It is a jurisdictional requirement that bills of exceptions be filed and served within the time prescribed by statute, or within such further time as may be given by order of court or stipulation. Johnson v. Johnson, 54 Nev. 433 , 22 P.2d 128 ; Comstock Phoenix Min. Co. v. Lazzeri, 55 ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Craig v. Harrah