State v. Ibrahim’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 1 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`[l]egislators, as well as judges, are bound to obey and support the constitution, and it is to be understood that they have weighed the constitutional validity of every act they pass. Hence the presumption is always in favor of the constitutionality of a statute; every reasonable doubt must be resolved in favor of the statute, not against it; and the courts will not adjudge it invalid unless its violation of the constitution is, in their judgment, clear, complete, and unmistakable.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Ibrahim

2. “Sawyer v. Dooley, 21 Nev. 390 , 32 P. 437 (1893); Wadsworth v. Union Pac. Ry., 18 Colo. 600 , 33 P. 515 (1893). In the mid- to late-nineteenth century, several early legal scholars endorsed the idea that, to declare a statute unconstitutional, the court must believe”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Ibrahim