Dargan v. RICHARDSON’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The words 'entirely segregated from other waters’ are conspicuous for their absence in the licensing features of the Acts heretofore referred to which indicates that the Legislature was of the mind and purpose that such should not be excluded but that at the time it re-enacted the angler’s and nonresident’s license provisions, intended to maintain and exercise regulatory powers over the ‘fresh water of this State,’ and the ‘inland streams or waters of this State’ whether entirely segregated from other waters or not. “While the private right or ownership may rest in Respondent, . . . such property rigid or ownership is not such as to be beyond reasonable regulations by the State.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Heard