Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The spectacle of a court of record and general jurisdiction being without power to initiate a proceeding to punish for contempt * * * without an affidavit of some third person first made, setting out the charge, would be pitiful in the exnotified treme, and was not contemplated by our statutes and under our Constitution. The court would thus be rendered impotent, powerless to protect its authority, and enforce its mandates and retain the respect and confidence of the people, for whose benefit it was organized and exists, except by the grace of some third person."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Henderson v. Dudley