Ex Parte Jimenez’s Empirical Analysis

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33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Actually, in such cases, the real question is often not whether the caption adequately refers to the provision of the act under attack, but whether the act itself, even with a perfect caption, does not violate the first requirement of the same constitutional section that ‘No bill * * * shall contain more than one subject’. “But Art. 9.02, supra, does not violate either the latter provision nor the one requiring that the subject be ‘expressed in its title’. Since the legislature undoubtedly has as much power to enact a code as it does a single law of narrowest scope, and since any sort of ‘code’ necessarily involves many different kinds of individual provisions, none of these latter will violate the ‘one subject’ restriction, if it has any logical relationship to the general subject. We consider it beyond dispute that there is such a relationship between the general subject of elections and a particular provision (Art. 9.02) for a court of enquiry to expose fraudulent electoral practices. The latter is merely one of the many different means stipulated in the code to insure a more pure and orderly conduct of elections. “This same consideration applies also to the requirement that the subject of the act or bill be ‘expressed in its title (caption)’. The captional words, ‘to adopt and establish an election code’, are clearly broad enough to include the subject matter of Art. 9.02, and are not limited by the succeeding words, ‘to revise and recodify Title 50’. Indeed, the latter ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Scott v. Handy-Andy, Inc.

2. ““An Act to adopt and establish an election code for the State of Texas, to revise and recodify Title SO of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 of Texas, and all amendments thereto, to repeal all Acts in conflict herewith, provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be construed as repealing or in any way affecting the legality of any penal provision of the existing law, and further provided that nothing in this Act shall in anywise alter, amend, or repeal House Bill No. 43, Acts, Regular Session, Fifty-second Legislature; providing a saving clause; providing an appropriation; providing the effective date; and declaring an emergency.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Scott v. Handy-Andy, Inc.