Edwards v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A city of the first, second, third or fourth class is not made an absolute unit by the act, but is given the right to become a separate unit by having a separate election for itself on the day the county election is held. Unless it exercises this right it does' not become a unit, and by the terms of the act if the majority of the legal votes cast in the county are against the sale, ‘then it shall not be lawful to sell, barter or loan any such liquor in any portion of the county.’ If when an election is held under the act for the entire county, such city exercises its right to a separate vote, and the city goes wet and the county dry or both go dry, the city becomes a unit, and may at the end of three years take another vote without regard to what the county may do or may not do.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hill v. Motley