Barber v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “holding that Petitioners have standing as taxpayers to assert their challenges to the transfers from all of the special funds, except for the two mooted claims. Id. at 769 . The majority held that Petitioners' interest in having general tax dollars spent in compliance with the state constitution was sufficient to confer standing. Id. The majority noted that, if Petitioners lacked standing to challenge the transfers,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barber v. Ritter

2. “'The duty of this court, as of every other judicial tribunal, is to decide actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried into effect, and not ... to declare principles or rules of law which cannot affect the matter in issue before it.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Comcast of California/Colorado, L.L.C. v. Express Concrete, Inc.

3. “the incidental production of revenue growing out of the enforcement of [an] act will not make it a bill for raising revenue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barber v. Ritter