Johnson v. Meagher County’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 548 (State Taxation of Depositories Act)
Relies on Mississippi State Tax Commission v. Brown · Montana National Bank v. Yellowstone County · State Ex Rel. Conrad Banking Corp. v. Mady
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Stated briefly, those purposes are to restrict the Legislature to the enactment of laws the subjects of which are made known to the lawmakers and to the public, to the end that any one interested may follow intelligently the course of pending bills to prevent the legislators and the people generally being misled by false or deceptive titles, and to guard against the fraud which might result from incorporating in the body of a bill provisions foreign to its general purpose and concerning which no information is given by the title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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