Hunt v. Schilling’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. ““So far as the second point is concerned, I do not find where the act of 1919 takes away from the Land Department the supervisory jurisdiction over the Commissioner which we held was given when we decided Campbell v. Caldwell, 20 Ariz. 377 , 181 Pac. 181 . The act merely provides an additional remedy of appeal made from the decision of the Land Commissioner or from the Land Department itself. I cannot agree with counsel that the appeal can be taken only from the decision of the Commissioner. The act expressly states that the appeal may be taken ‘from any decision of the Commissioner of the State Land Department and from the State Land Department.’ “If the decision of the Commissioner is final, why was an appeal provided for from the Department? It surely is not to be seriously contended that the act of 1919, in its few short provisions was meant to make the Land Commissioner entirely independent of the Department. The supervisory jurisdiction of the Land Department over the Land Commission still exists, unless the matter is taken out of the Land Department by an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner himself. “It is argued that an adequate remedy at law was an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of the Land Department instead of an action for mandamus, but the appellant in this case is satisfied with the only legal decision of the department and has nothing which he wishes to appeal from. All he asks is that the Land Department through its Commissioner will car”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alberts v. McGirk