Beach v. Leahy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 33 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ They are denominated in the books and known to the law as quasi corporations, rather than as corporations proper. They possess some corporate functions and attributes, but they are primarily political subdivisions — agencies in the administration of civil government;— and their corporate, functions are granted to enable them more readily to perform their public duties. The legislature have created the regents of the agricultural college and the¡ regents of the state university bodies corporate and given them certain corporate powers (Gen. Stat., p. 75, § 3; p. 1100, § 6), yet are they thereby inhibited from special legislation concerning them? Giving corporate capacity to certain agencies in the administration of civil government is not the creation of such an organization as was sought to be protected by article 12 of the constitution.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Travelers' Ins. v. Township of Oswego · Rees v. Olmsted

2. “| “It may ho conceded that this is a special law; that it authorizes the issue of bonds in a manner and upon conditions different from those proscribed by the general statute therefor. It is evident, also, that the result could be accomplished by a general law, or,' in the words of the constitution, that a general law could be made applicable, for a general law is on the .statute hook under which great numbers of school districts have issued bonds. Why this distinction was made, we do not know, and there is nothing in tho record to enlighten us thereon. We may imagine many reasons, hut it is useless to speculate. It is enough, in the absence of any showing as to tlie facts, that we can see that there may have been good and sufficient reasons.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Travelers' Ins. v. Township of Oswego

3. ““It may be conceded that this is a special law. . . . It is evident, also, that the result could be accomplished by a general law. . . . Why this distinction was made we do not know, and there is nothing in the record to enlighten us thereon. We may imagine many reasons, but it is useless to speculate. It is enough . . . that there may have been good and sufficient reasons.” (pp. 26, 27.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hicks v. Davis