Gillespie v. Lightfoot’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““As we have before pointed out, there can be no question that the infirmity in county-line districts, due to a want of constitutional authority to form them, is cured, and that those districts are all declared to have been valid from the first to the same full extent. It must follow, as we have also said, that every district, however established, that is inconsistent with the will of the people thus expressed must go down before the amendment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Oakwood Independent School Dist. v. Liberty Common School Dist. No. 34

2. “every school district heretofore formed, whether formed under the general law or by special act, and whether the territory embraced within its boundaries lies wholly within a single county, or partly within two or more counties, is hereby declared to be, and from its formation to have been, a valid and lawful district.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tomlinson v. Hunnicutt

3. “It does not follow that a change made as authorized by law in the case of valid districts would conflict with the amendment. No question of the kind is before us.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tomlinson v. Hunnicutt