Langston v. Howell County’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. ““Our Constitution (section 5, art. 14) provides that: ‘In the absence of any contrary provision, all officers now or hereafter elected or appointed, subject to the right of resignation, shall hold office during their official terms, and until their successors shall be duly elected or appointed and qualified,’ and section 11196 R.S.1929 (section 9168, R.S.1919), Mo.St.Ann. § 11196, p. 6141, reads: ‘All officers elected or appointed by the authority of the laws of this state shall hold their offices until their successors are elected or appointed, commissioned and qualified.’ We find no constitutional or statutory provision which either expressly or by implication excludes the county highway engineer, or the office of county highway engineer, from the operation and effect of the foregoing constitutional and statutory rule so that since there is no ‘contrary provision’ the rule so prescribed must be applied. * ⅜ * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davenport v. Teeters