Shillitani v. Valentine’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “* * * a telephone company may not refuse to furnish service and facilities because of mere suspicion or mere belief that they may be or are being used for an illegitimate end; more is required (People v. Brophy, 49 Cal.App.2d 15 , 120 P.2d 946 , supra; Western Union Tel. Co. v. Ferguson, 57 Ind. 495 ); nor because the character of the applicant is not above reproach, nor because such person is engaged in immoral or illegal pursuits, where they have no connection with the service applied for. Godwin case, supra. [Godwin v. Carolina Tel. & Tel. Co., 136 N.C. 258 , 48 S.E. 636 , 67 L.R.A. 251 , 103 Am.St.Rep. 941 , 1 Ann.Cas. 203.] * * * * * * * * * "Neither the police commissioner nor the police department has any jurisdiction or authority over the matter of furnishing, discontinuing or restoring telephone service to the public, nor in any other way, so far as I am aware; his or its approval or disapproval in that regard are meaningless insofar as any legal effect is concerned; they possess no more power in that respect than a stranger; each is utterly without such power whatever, however much the views and attitude of the commissioner or the department may by indirection be enforced, as, for example, by the arrangement or understanding between the police and the telephone company, * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pike v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.

2. “"* * * a telephone company may not refuse to furnish service and facilities because of mere suspicion or mere belief that they may be or are being used for an illegitimate end; more is required (People v. Brophy, 49 Cal.App.2d 15 , 120 P.2d 946 , supra; Western Union Tel. Co. v. Ferguson, 57 Ind. 495 ); nor because the character of the applicant is not above reproach, nor because such person is engaged in immoral or illegal pursuits, where they have no connection with the service applied for. Godwin case, supra. [Godwin v. Carolina Tel. & Tel. Co., 136 N.C. 258 , 48 S.E. 636 , 67 L.R.A. 251 , 103 Am.St.Rep. 941 , 1 Ann.Cas. 203.] * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pike v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.