Gordon v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellants are not accountable for delays caused by clerks of court or court reporters after the transcript has been ordered properly; appellants are held accountable only for delays that they cause. Thus, for example, a delay in the filing of a transcript is excusable when there is evidence that it was caused by the 'backlog' of the court reporter rather than by an act or omission of the appellant.”

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

2. “[T]he trial court may order the appeal dismissed where there has been an unreasonable delay in the transmission of the record to the appellate court, and it is seen that the delay was inexcusable and was caused by the failure of a party to pay costs in the trial court or file an affidavit of indigence.”

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

3. “[T]his presumption is subject to rebuttal if the party comes forward with evidence to show that the delay was neither unreasonable nor inexcusable.”

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