Fletcher v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There are many laws that provide for raising money by taxation that are not revenue laws. The law under which the city derives the power to tax the property within its limits, originated in the senate. The law organizing schools, and permitting the levy of a tax for that specific purpose, originated in the senate, and no one ever dreamed of calling them revenue laws.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. School District No. 1

2. ““The constitutional provision that all real property shall be subject to taxation, except certain exempted kinds therein enumerated, amounts to an inhibition on the Legislature from exempting other real property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Forshaw v. Layman

3. ““Is there a power conferred, or a duty enjoined, by any of the sections of the law of 1868 which, if left out, would not have retarded and delayed the construction of roads and highways'?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hooker v. Parkin