McClain v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Compliance with Rule 84.04 briefing requirements is mandatory in order to ensure that appellate courts do not become advocates by speculating on facts and on arguments that have not been made. Deficient points relied on force the appellate court to search the argument portion of the brief or the record itself to determine and clarify the appellant’s assertions, thereby wasting judicial resources, and, worse yet, creating the danger that the appellate court will interpret the appellant’s contention differently than the appellant intended or his opponent understood.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Young v. Ernst

2. “The point shall be in substantially the following form: “The trial court erred in [identify the challenged ruling or ac tion], because [state the legal reasons for the claim of reversible error \ in that [explain why the legal reasons, in the context of the case, support the claim of reversible error ].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Young v. Ernst