Dickey v. Storey’s Empirical Analysis

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13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Construing these Code sections, we hold that the Board is not authorized to use proceeds from the SPLOST tax for a purpose entirely different from that contained in the SPLOST budget and account reports. We further hold that the Board is bound by the SPLOST budget and account reports to complete all projects listed therein unless circumstances arise which dictate that projects which initially seemed feasible are no longer so. In this regard the governing authority has discretion to make adjustments in the plans for these projects, but may not abandon the projects altogether.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnstone v. Thompson · Haugen v. Henry County

2. “there might never be funds with which to build the contemplated complex if the site . . . is changed, and substantial sums of SPLOST monies expended, following each election of members to the Board.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnstone v. Thompson

3. “it [was] not apparent from the record . . . that the Board . . . ever voted to abandon the original site of the softball complex.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnstone v. Thompson