Dunn v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An Anders brief is in one sense an abbreviated form of a regular brief, but it is different from a regular brief in that it must demonstrate that the potentially meritorious issues are frivolous.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. LC v. State · State v. Wells

2. “counsel’s brief must contain a statement of the facts, a description of the proceedings, and the citation of pertinent authorities sufficient to permit the [reviewing court] to [fully examine all the proceedings to decide whether the case is wholly frivolous]. For that same reason, unless a transcript of proceedings has been certified as part of the record, the brief must be accompanied by a stipulation describing the trial proceedings pertinent to each alleged error or by other reliable representation thereof.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. LC v. State · L.C. v. State

3. “[blefore filing an Anmders-type brief with this court, counsel must give the client both a copy of the brief and enough time to allow the client to raise any points that the client chooses. Counsel must certify in the brief that he or she has met this requirement. Counsel's brief must then incorporate, "in as full detail as appropriate, any points the [client] has raised with counsel, and any issues the client has raised in a pro se brief.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. LC v. State · State v. Wells