Haesloop v. City Council’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 23 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While all lands within the state’s borders are at all times in a sense ‘under the control of the state’ in its governmental capacity — that is, subject to regulation and appropriation in the legitimate exercise of its powers of police and of eminent domain — manifestly, we think, the reference in this constitutional provision is to public lands belonging to and controlled by the state in its capacity as sovereign proprietor. Had the land here involved been granted by the state to an individual, and subsequently conveyed to the city council, it would scarcely be contended that at the time of the adoption of the Constitution of 1895 it was land ‘belonging to or under the control of the state.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bobo v. City of Spartanburg

2. “was neither purchased with money raised by taxation, nor does its proposed disposal involve a resort to the power of taxation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nash v. . Tarboro

3. “public utility within the meaning of the right to tax or to invoke the power of eminent domain.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nash v. . Tarboro