Root v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The reason for placing this limitation upon the exercise of the privilege of exempting townships is obvious, for such a law would operate with reasonable permanence, so as to avoid great expense and inconvenience to farmers and stock raisers living in the territory, and it would not be good policy to permit frequent changes dependent upon the changing will of the majority. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Solomon v. Carroll