State v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Even if the application here had been in the proper form, which it was not, whether or not an application for a continuance should be sustained is within the discretion of the trial court and a very strong showing, absent here, is required to cause an appellate court to interfere with the ruling of the court nisi on a request for a continuance.”

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

2. “An application for a continuance shall be made by a written motion accompanied by the affidavit of the applicant or some other credible person setting forth the facts upon which the application is based, unless the adverse party consents that the application for continuance may be made orally.”

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