Kelleher v. Schoene’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.2d 341 · 1926
Citation profile
4 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Terrace v. Thompson · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. City of Goldsboro · Eubank v. City of Richmond · Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy
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.
““If the original statute had in both the-first and second sections mentioned only a radius of one mile, and had otherwise been expressed as it was expressed, we can think of no constitutional provision which would’ make invalid an amendment making the radius two miles and expressly providing that the amendment should apply in districts-which had previously adopted the original statute, without further action by the county-authorities. The legislative act of grace,, in making the application of the original act optional, could by no possibility, in and of itself, destroy the legislative power to thereafter make laws without regard to the wishes of county authorities. And this power necessarily includes the power to amend existing laws, also without regard to the wishes of county authorities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelleher v. French
How this case has been treated — in progress
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