Scott v. State ex rel. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is settled that all officers except members of the legislature hold their offices under the constitution for the term for which they are elected, and until their successors are elected and qualified. (authorities). “Under the constitution officers who are elected for a term, are thereby authorized to continue to hold and discharge the duties and receive the emoluments of their office until they are superseded by other persons in their places even though that extends beyond the legal length of the term for which they to ere elected, (authorities). “The policy of constitutional provisions of that nature is to prevent the happening of vacancies in office except by death, resignation, removal and the like. State, ex rel. v. Harrison, supra. As was said in the latter case at page 441: ‘It adds an additional contingent and defeasible term to the original fixed term, and excludes the possibility of a vacancy, . . . ’” (Italics supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Swank v. Tyndall