Baldwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Conceding that this argument of counsel is meritorious as applicable to the case at bar we are not privileged to make an exception to the general rule to which we have adhered to for many years. For us to do so would wreck the rule relating to appellate practice and procedure in that other exceptions would be insisted upon from time to time with the result that no record could be considered as complete in any case.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nelson v. State · Krause v. Taylor

2. ““It has been the rule in this Court for many years that a bill of exceptions to become a part of the record must be complete in every particular, including all the evidence in the ease and the ruling of the trial judge upon every controversial issue. When it is once signed and thus authenticated no one may take anything from it or add to it. ‘To have the rule to mean less or more is to make it mean nothing. If it can be added to for one purpose, it can be for all purposes. If it (the bill of exceptions) may be amended in one particular, it may be in every. And so the entire bill of exceptions could be, and often would be, changed throughout.’ Cosmopolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Woodward, 7 Tenn.App. 394, 409 .” 204 Tenn. at 643-44 , 325 S.W.2d at 246 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Krause v. Taylor