State v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a well-established rule of law that, if a person exercise the functions of a public office under color of right, and with the acquiescence of the public, he will be deemed an officer de facto, and his acts will protect third persons, even though he was not eligible to the office, or had legally forfeited it by removing from the county (Mechem, Pub. Off. sec. 320; Throop, Pub. Off. secs. 631-636); and the acts of such an officer cannot be impeached collaterally, nor his title inquired into, except in quo war-ranto proceedings instituted for that purpose. (Mechem, Pub. Off. sec. 343; Throop, Pub. Off. secs. 631, 632).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brimer v. Municipality of Jefferson