Fuller v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““After reviewing the authorities and considering the question before us in all its bearings, we are of the opinion that, the Bond Act of 1913 for Cullman County contemplated the issuance of bonds for the construction and improvement of the public roads of the county, a project to be accomplished as a continuous undertaking within a reasonable time for the benefit of the people of the county who ratified the issue of bonds at an election. Twenty-seven years, have intervened. The electorate of the county has largely changed; an entire change of set up for highway construction, including State and Federal aid, has intervened. The fund from the proposed issue of $40,000 cannot now be used for the road improvement contemplated when they were authorized by vote of the people. * * * “We lay down no hard and fast rule on the question of time limit for such issues. We base ,our conclusion on the reasonable in-tendments in the case at hand. We hold that on the alleged authority exhibited in the pleading, the ‘additional $40,000 principal amount of bonds’ cannot be legally issued.” (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re the City of St. Louis