Bennett v. Day’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A literal following of the language of the statute — with no other modifying sections or parts of sections — sustains no other conclusion than that it was the intention of the Legislature to prohibit another election on the same subject-matter within three years held in the same territory of the preceding one.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Buchanan v. Clark