Day v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Municipal corporations may make proper classifications of persons or things for various purposes of legislation. A municipal regulation in order to be valid, does not necessarily have to operate on all alike, provided it operates equally on each class embraced within its provisions. In order that it be unlawfully discriminatory, it must discriminate between persons in a like situation. ( 225 Miss. at 206 , 82 So.2d at 837 ).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. HATTIESBURG FIREF'T'RS v. City of Hattiesburg · McCardle v. City of Jackson

2. “In accordance with general principles ordinarily applicable to municipal ordinances as well as to state statutes, where the provisions of an ordinance are separable, and it may fairly be presumed that the municipal council would have enacted one part without the other, the whole ordinance will not be declared void because of the invalidity, such as the unconstitutionality or unreasonableness of a part.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 601 F. Supp. 1093 - Fernwood Books and Video v. City of Jackson, Miss.

3. “shall not apply to the sale or soliciting of order for the sale of milk, dairy products, vegetables, poultry, eggs, and other farm and garden produce so far as the sale of the commodities named herein is now authorized by law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. HATTIESBURG FIREF'T'RS v. City of Hattiesburg