Brault v. Holleman’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2011
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Dodson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The real question, therefore, is whether, from the terms of the appropriation bill itself, several appropriations relating to the same subject are so legally “tied up,” are made so legally interdependent, that one cannot be eliminated from the enactment without, in the words of [Commonwealth v. Dodson [ 176 Va. 281 ], 11 S.E.2d 120 (Va.1940) ], “affecting its other purposes or provisions.” If it is clear from the appropriation bill that, with the disapproved provision eliminated, the approved appropriations cannot effectively serve their intended purposes, the attempted elimination is invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the constitutional sense, an item of an appropriation bill is an indivisible sum of money dedicated to a stated purpose; the term refers to something which may be eliminated from the bill without affecting the enactment’s other purposes or provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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