Lawson v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Some legislator can render a distinct public service by so amending this statute that upon the filing of a petition the court should order an election to take the sense of the voters upon whether or not the incorporated status of cities should be annulled.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Pittsburg v. Fiechter