Beckler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““5-509. Majority required to transact business. — A majority of all the justices constituting the quarterly county court, and not merely a majority of the quorum, shall be required to elect county officials required by law to be elected by the quarterly county court, to fix salaries, to appropriate money and to transact all other business coming before the quarterly county court in regular or special sessions.” (emphasis supplied)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mid-America Cable Corp. v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville

2. ““Had the Legislature intended for the expression ‘all the justices constituting the quarterly county court’ to have a meaning different from that necessarily given it by the holding in Whitehead v. Clark, supra, it would certainly have been easy enough to have used appropriate language so showing.” (Supra, p. 377, 280 S.W.2d p. 915)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mid-America Cable Corp. v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville