Gilmore v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 19 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But, even if it were shown that the plaintiffs had no title to the lots, still, as they were in possession of the property, exercising acts of ownership over it, and claiming it to be their own, they had an inchoate title that would in time, under the statute of limitations, ripen into a complete and absolute title. And evidently, while this inchoate and incomplete title to said lots is growing into a complete and absolute title, the plaintiffs ought to have a right to see that no illegal tax or assessment should be imposed upon said lots to eventually override and overthrow their own inchoate title.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sharum v. City of Muskogee

2. ““All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state; and in all cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Metropolitan Water Co. v. Kansas City

3. ““Any power conferred upon a corporation, and to be exercised by the corporation, is a corporate power.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Metropolitan Water Co. v. Kansas City