Laman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This is, of course, entirely different from making a set allowance of funds to a public officer to be used at will.” And we emphasized this in the closing paragraph saying: “In accordance with what has been said, we hold the ordinance valid, reiterating, however, that the officers involved in this litigation are not entitled to one-twelftb each month of the total amount appropriated for public relations expenses, but are entitled only to reimbursement up to that amount for public relations expenses actually incurred.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tedford v. Mears