State v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 16 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ Here Judge Bland followed the case to the Laclede Circuit Court, as he was obliged to do by the express command of Section 1881, .as amended by the Act of 1887 (Acts 1887, p. 168). This section, as amended, makes no provision for another change of venue because-of prejudice or alleged prejudice of the judge. This matter is one of statutory regulation, and the ease with which such -affidavits of prejudice are procured, on an adverse ruling of the court, renders it important to keep within the statute. There should be an end, to such applications; and we hold now, as in the case last cited, that the application for a change of venue, because of prejudice of Judge Wallace, was the last of such motions.””

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

2. ““There is nothing in the statute on the subject, but we cannot suppose that the Legislature designed to allow a perpetual round of such motions and affidavits by which a trial .could be indefinitely postponed, and, therefore, the application before Judge Wright, under Section 1877 was the end of such applications.””

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