State ex rel. Jamison v. Forsyth’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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items or part or parts of any bill making appropriations of money or property embracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the law, and the item or items and part or parts disapproved shall be void unless enacted in the following manner: If the legislature be in session he shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of the item or items or part or parts thereof disapproved, together with his objections thereto, and the items or parts objected to shall be separately reconsidered, and each item or part shall then take the same course as is prescribed for the passage of bills over the executive veto.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. MGT. COUNCIL OF LEGISLATURE v. Geringer · Management Council of the Wyoming Legislature v. Geringer

2. ““There, an affirmative approval was es sential to the bill becoming a law, and the approval being a qualified one, and unauthorized in that form, it was held not to amount to an approval at all within the meaning of the Constitution, and not effectual for any purpose. If that be true, we think the same reasons require it to be held that where an affirmative approval is not required, but the bill or the items contained therein wlill become law unless disapproved, an unauthorized disapproval will be ineffectual. Conceding that where an approval is required to give the act force as law, words qualifying the approval showing a purpose to approve it only in part will nullify the approval and render it ineffectual it does not, we think, reasonably follow that similar words qualifying an approval and showing a purpose to disapprove in part will amount to a disapproval of the entire bill, or of an item in it affected by the attempted disapproval, where such partial disapproval is unauthorized by the Constitution, and! the bill or tihe particular item would become a law unless disapproved.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Peebly v. Childers

3. ““. . . under our Constitution, which provides that a bill received too late to be returned to the Legislature within the specified time will become a law unless disapproved within the period limited for that purpose after adjournment, an unauthorized disapproval would not defeat the bill.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Link v. Olson