Jay v. Kreigh’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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

1. “The matter was tried and determined, albeit by minute entry, before the City of Tucson attempted to defeat incorporation. Assuming that the Board of Supervisors had a duty to declare the Town of Oro Valley incorporated in the first place, the trial court had jurisdiction to order the Board of Supervisors to do what the Board ought to have done in the first place, and once the Superior Court acquired jurisdiction over the subject matter of the incorporation of Oro Valley and parties thereto, the Tucson City Council could not oust the court of that jurisdiction by the annexation of territory within 6 miles of the new town.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Exodyne Properties, Inc. v. City of Phoenix