White v. Hinton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘A calendar day, even, is not necessarily a legislative day. A fortiori a fraction of a calendar day is not necessarily, or even presumptively, a legislative day. By a long established practice of congress, a calendar day is not recognized as limiting a session of any legislative day-’” (Emphasis added).”

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

2. ““To these records resort is had in case of any question as to the correctness of the published statutes.... It is not to be tolerated that the courts or the people should depend upon or resort to the recollection of individuals for the statutory law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mayor of Baltimore v. State

3. ““Unless specially provided, the time within which an act is required by law to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last, and if the last be Sunday, it shall be excluded. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peterson v. Spaugh