Riddle v. . Ledbetter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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. “A municipal corporation has only such powers as are granted to it by the General Assembly in its specific charter or by the general laws of the State applicable to all municipal corporations.... ... [I]t is also true that a municipal corporation may exercise all the powers within the fair intent and purpose of its creation which are reasonably necessary to give effect to the powers expressly granted, and in doing this it may exercise discretion as to the means to the end.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Maready v. City of Winston-Salem

2. “A municipal corporation has only such powers as are granted to it by the General Assembly in its specific charter or by the general laws of the State applicable to all municipal corporations, and the powers granted in the charter will be construed together with those given under the general statutes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lumbee River Electric Membership Corp. v. City of Fayetteville

3. “the powers prescribed by statute, and those necessarily implied by law, and no other.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Green v. . Kitchin