Cantuc v. Parr’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. ““Since the famous case of Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat 518, 4 L.Ed. 629 , it has generally been conceded that the due process of law is ‘A law which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry and renders judgment only afterwards.’ “ ‘Due process of law’ is required by both our Federal and State Constitution. The fourteenth amendment of our Federal Constitution provides, among other things, that: “ ‘Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.’ “Texas Constitution, Art. 1, § 19, Vernon’s Ann.St. provides [see verbatim quote, supra]. This applies to the legislature as well as the judicial branch of our State government. In 12 Am.Jur. p. 283, § 586 it is stated: ‘The requirements of due process of law extend to every case of the exercise of governmental power. The limitations inherent in the requirements as to due process of law are binding equally on the United States and on the several states. “ ‘A state may not by any of its agencies, legislative, judicial, or executive, disregard the constitutional prohibition. The inhibition includes all functionaries of state government, judicial as well as political.’ ...””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tarrant County v. Ashmore

2. ““No citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tarrant County v. Ashmore