Galoway v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “[The roads supervisors] are to call together all inhabitants and occupiers of lands, tenements and hereditaments within the parish, six days in every year to labor in fetching materials, or repairing the highways; all persons keeping draughts (of three horses, etc.), or occupying lands, being obliged to send a team for every draught, etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Emery v. State

2. “Appropriation of timber for the construction of bridges, or of gravel or stone for the roadbed, may not be made without compensation, as under the law of eminent domain.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Emery v. State

3. “[t]here remains nothing to be returned to the owner,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Emery v. State