Lang v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No law enacted by the General Assembly shall relate to more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title, and no law shall be revised, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revised, amended, extended or conferred, shall be re-enacted and published at length. ’ ’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stone v. City of Lexington · Duke v. Boyd County

2. ““A further contention is made, that the auditor has no authority to maintain the present action, as the statute only authorizes him to sue a county, and not a county judge. The statute, however, makes it the duty of the county judge on the last day of each month to make an order directing the treasurer of the county, or one acting as such, to transmit to the auditor the'sum due, and, as the duty is imposed upon the auditor of public accounts to receive and account for the sum for the Commonwealth, we think he is authorized to maintain an action in the name of the Commonwealth requiring the orders to be made which are necessary to enable tbe state by the auditor to proceed against tbe county.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tincher v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Shanks

3. ““The Commonwealth shall maintain control of the discipline, and provide for all supplies, and for the sanitary condition of the convicts, and the labor only of convicts may be leased.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Briskman v. Central State Hospital