Parrish v. Stembridge’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]o prohibit the enactment of special, private, or local laws to meet the purposes of particular cases which may be accomplished by proceedings outside of the Legislature under the provisions of general statutes enacted to meet all cases of that general character. . . . Brandon v. Askew, 172 Ala. 160 , 54 So. 605, 607 (1911).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 354 So. 2d 808 - Peddycoart v. City of Birmingham

2. “"... As has often been said, when, in the judgment of the legislature, local needs demand additional or supplemental laws substantially different from the general law, the legislature has the power and authority to enact them....."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 405 So. 2d 374 - Colley v. State