Noel v. Summit’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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

1. ““The manifest reason for allowing street repairs . . . without the usual formality .requisite to street paving, is. that the nature of such work and the requirement therefor becomes apparent at irregular times and in comparatively small ways, both in extent and cost. It was more practical to leave such matters of keeping the street in condition, to a street commissioner, as the necessity would show itself from time to time. It was never intended that he should construct a new work. It would be an unreasonable construction of the statute to say that the first part showed such solicitude for the protection of the property holder as to require action of the board of aider-men, publication of notices . . . and a public letting of the work, and then that it should be immediately followed, in the latter part, by words doing away with all this when the street was to be rebuilt or again be constructed. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ranney v. City of Cape Girardeau