Chadduck v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The case of Johnson v. Mann, 77 Va. 265 , is cited for the proposition that a vacancy exists which can be supplied by the appointing power for filling vacancies, when the incumbent of an office is holding over, by authority of law, until his successor qualified. In that case Judge Richardson does employ language justifying this contention; but its use does not appear to have been necessary to the decision of the question there involved, and the dictum is not sound, is contrary to current of authority, and cannot be followed as a precedent. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burnett v. Brown

2. “he was just as fully authorized by law to hold the office and exercise the powers and perform the duties appertaining to it after that time, until his successor had been duly appointed and qualified, as he was before the expiration of his regular term.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Hannett

3. “the period between the expiration of his term and the qualification of his successor is as much a part of the incumbent's term of office as the fixed statutory period, when the law provides that he shall hold until his successor qualifies.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Hannett