State Ex Rel. Thomas v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appellee has raised the question as to the meaning of Art. 6, §2 of the Indiana Constitution, Amendment of 1952, which states: ‘There shall be elected in each county by the voters thereof, at the time of holding general elections, a Clerk of the Circuit Court, Auditor, Recorder, Treasurer, Sheriff, Coroner and Surveyor. . . .’ (Emphasis supplied.) “This cannot mean that sheriffs or the other officers named are elected at each general election, as they are all now four-year offices, but simply that such officers are elected at general elections. Again, we should not read into this constitutional amendment words not there appearing or intended. Art. 6, §2, has no bearing on the case before us for determination, and no one has advanced any plausible contention to the contrary.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marion County Election Board v. O'BRIEN

2. ““These constitutional provisions [Art. 6, §§2 and 11] are compatible if we construe them to mean . . . regular elections for sheriff shall be held in the years 1950, 1954, 1958, etc., and special elections to fill vacancies may be held for the remainder of the unexpired terms of such offices on other years [1952, 1956, 1960] when general elections are held. Thus, and only thus, could sheriffs ‘be elected . . . at the time of holding general elections,’ ....” (Emphasis supplied. )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Haggerty v. Marion County Election Board

3. “. “The Constitution of Indiana having made no provision concerning the filling of vacancies in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court or the tenure of any person appointed thereto, the Legislature representing the people and exercising the power reserved to them, may, by law, provide for the filling of vacancies in the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court by appointment and fix the tenure of the appointee, within the limits of the constitutional four-year term.” [p. 50.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Haggerty v. Marion County Election Board