Johnson v. Betts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * These provisions, however, have reference to proceedings before the commission affecting public utilities. A casual reading of them is enough to convince one of this. The act of which they are a part treats of public service corporations and their control and supervision by the commission, and the procedure therein provided was not intended to extend to a hearing or proceeding authorized by some other statute or law, to be had or held by the commission. While the language employed in paragraph 2329, Civil Code, being also a part of the ‘Public Service Corporation Act,’ is broad enough to cover and include a proceeding like this one we are considering, it clearly was not the legislative intent to have it do so, for the reason that the ‘Public Service Corporation Act/ as originally passed (Act 90, Reg.Sess. 1st Leg.1912), did not directly or by implication extend its provisions to proceedings before the commission affecting insurance companies. ‘All hearings and investigations “before the commission or any commissioner/ as used in paragraph 2329, must therefore be limited to refer to hearings and investigations before the commission or a commissioner affecting a public service corporation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commercial Life Ins. Co. v. Wright

2. ““ * * * It is well recognized that special tribunals exercising special summary powers must find their authority within the statute. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Magma Copper Co. v. Arizona State Tax Commission