Wall v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district · 26 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘A constitution must be interpreted liberally to carry into effect the principles of government which it embodies. It deals broadly with general subjects and its language should not be interpreted in any narrow, refined or subtle sense, but should be held to mean what the words imply to the common understanding of men. In ascertaining the meaning of a constitutional provision courts consider the circumstances attending its adoption and what appears to have been the understanding of the people when they adopted it.’ “It is fundamental that the written constitution is paramount law since it emanates direct from the people. [Citation omitted.]” Wall v. Harrison, 201 Kan. 600, 603 , 443 P.2d 266 (1968) (quoting Higgins v. Cardinal Manufacturing Co., 188 Kan. 11 , Syl. ¶ 2, 360 P.2d 456 [1961]).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leek v. Theis · 16 Kan. App. 2d 757 - State Ex Rel. Braun v. a Tract of Land in the Northwest Quarter of Section Four, Township Eleven South, Range Nineteen West of the 6th P.M.A Tract of Land in the Northwest Quarter of Section Four, Township Eleven South, Range Nineteen West of the 6th P.M.