Ex Parte Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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. ““While Rule 4(c), Ala. RApp. P., includes a provision that ‘[tjimely filing may be shown by a notarized statement that sets forth the date the filing was deposited in the institution’s mail system’ (emphasis added), this rule does not mandate such a notarized statement as the only way to establish the timeliness of a filing. Such a mandate would create still further issues about the availability and expense of a notary public that the rule is not drawn to resolve. The nonmandatory nature of the provi sion for the notarized statement is connoted by the use of the word may in contradistinction to the use of the word must elsewhere in the very same rule to connote a measure that is mandatory— the inmate’s use of the ‘legal’ mail system, if one is available in the institution, instead of the general mail system there.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parris v. Prison Health Services, Inc.

2. ““Except as otherwise provided herein, in all cases in which an appeal is permitted by law as of right to the supreme court or to a court of appeals, the notice of appeal required by Rule 3 shall be filed with the clerk of the trial court within 42 days (6 weeks) of the date of the entry of the judgment or order appealed from....””

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