In Re Byers’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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

1. ““The intent and purpose of the legislature in the enactment of said section 4465 is, in our opinion, perfectly clear. By express pronouncement it is provided that nothing therein should be construed to alter the standing of any newspaper which at that date was an established newspaper of general circulation, even though it had not been printed in the place where it was published for a period of one year as required by section 4460. . . . Accordingly, by the terms of section 4465, newspapers of general circulation established as such at the date of the enactment of section 4463 were not in any manner affected by the provisions of said section even though they failed to meet the requirements of such legislation. In other words, it was the clear intent and purpose of the legislature not to make the statute retroactive, but to confine its application to such newspapers as were not, at that date, newspapers of general circulation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fischle v. Coachella Valley Publishing Co.

2. “unreasonable to exact certain requirements of a newspaper to be established in the future which are not required of those long established and which have proved their right to exist by a full compliance with all the laws in force at the time of their establishment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Norwalk Call