Franklin County v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * The magistrates in acting upon the committees do not act as magistrates, nor could they claim the privilege of so acting by virtue of their office. Nor could they be required to so act because of their membership in the court. Where the county maintains a system of free turnpike roads, and retains the supervision and control of them, it is competent for the court to let the work, or to require overseers to attend to it. Until the amendment of 1902, it was not lawful for the magistrates to elect themselves or any of their number to do that work, because of the prohibition contained in section 1844, Ky. St., supra (now KRS 61.220). The purpose of the amendment was to remove that disability; that is, the the disability to contract with themselves in this one particular, and to expressly allow them to do so. * * *»”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Trimble County ex rel. Shaver v. Moore