Ex parte Jentzsch’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

78 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The conclusion is, that although a law is general and constitutional when it applies equally to all persons embraced in a class founded upon some natural or' intrinsic or constitutional distinction, it is not general or constitutional if it confers particular privileges or imposes peculiar disabilities’ or burdensome conditions, in the exercise of a common right, upon a class of persons arbitrarily selected from the general body of those who stand in precisely the same relation to the subject of the law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Elliott v. State

2. ““So, while the police power is one whose proper use makes most potently for good, in its undefined scope and inordinate exercise lurks no small danger to the republic; for the difficulty which is experienced in defining its just limits and bounds affords a temptation to the legislature to encroach upon the rights of citizens with experimental laws none the less dangerous because well meant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Packer Corporation

3. ““Liberty of conscience and belief is preserved alike to the followers of Christ, to Buddhist and Mohammedan, to all who think that their tenets alone are illumined by the light of divine truth; but it is equally preserved to the skeptic, agnostic, atheist, and infidel, who says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fellowship of Humanity v. County of Alameda