McGlaughlin v. Warfield’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Every presumption favors the validity of a statute. It was said by this Court in McGlaughlin v. Warfield, 180 Md. 75 , at page 78, 23 A. 2d 12 , 13: Tn accordance with the great weight of authority in this country, this Court has consistently held that the purpose of the constitutional provision here invoked is sufficiently complied with if the title of the proposed legislation fairly advised the General Assembly, and the public, of the real nature, and subject matter, of the legislation sought to be accomplished, and in testing conformity of a title of a statute to constitutional requirements that the subject should be described in the title, the Courts are disposed to uphold rather than to defeat the statute, and since every presumption favors the validity of a statute, it cannot be stricken down as void, unless it plainly contravenes a provision of the Constitution; a reasonable doubt in its favor is enough to sustain it.’ Many cases are there cited to sustain this rule.” ( 191 Md. at 315 ; 60 A. 2d at 742 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State's Attorney v. Triplett