State v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The Governor of the State under our Constitution has the power to require information from any officer in the executive department. He has the duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” He is the head of the executive department. To carry out these great constitutional powers, in our view, everything pertaining to the executive department is at all times pending before the Governor in his official capacity.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riley v. Cornerstone Community Outreach, Inc. · 60 So. 3d 831 - Tyson v. Jones

2. ““We do not find that the meaning of the phrase, ‘the supreme executive power’ as contained in our Constitution and the Constitutions of many other states of this Union, has ever been precisely defined, although the matter is referred to in some decisions. Perhaps the tern itself, taken in connection with the context, is sufficiently explicit. An executive department is created, consisting of a Governor and the other officers named, and he is designated as the one having the supreme executive power; that is the highest in authority in that department. In the same connection, it will be noticed that the other executive officers are required to furnish information upon subjects relating to their duties, and to make annual reports to him, and withal he is charged with the duty of seeing that the laws are faithfully executed. It is manifest from these various provisions that the term ‘supreme executive poiver’ is something more than a verbal adornment of the office, and implies such power as will secure an efficient execution of the laws, which is the peculiar province of that department, to be accomplished, however, in the manner and by the methods and within the limitations prescribed by the Constitution and statutes, enacted in harmony with that instrument. “When a Constitution gives a general power or enjoins a duty, it also gives by implication, every particular power necessary for the exercise of the one or the performance of the other.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riley v. Cornerstone Community Outreach, Inc.