Worthen v. Roots’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 17 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Hand in hand with this is another policy, quite as plainly indicated in the constitution. It is that every citizen having an ascertained debt against the county, or a ‘warrant,’ as it is termed, shall have the privilege of paying it in for taxes. No discriminations are made in favor of any persons who, standing on the same rights, may have been more industrious or fortunate than others in obtaining these evidences of their claims. It would be, as to these creditors, the same, in effect, to refuse to allow their claims, and deny them warrants, as it would be to refuse to receive their warrants when issued; and either would be repugnant, not only to the spirit of the constitution, but to that of all our legislation for a series of years.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Little Rock v. United States ex rel. Howard

2. “". . . [I]t will be seen that the first four [provisions] are of an indispensable nature, essential to the support of the government. They are for services that must be performed, or the business of the counties must stop. The last three are not supposed to be imposed by necessity, but are matters of contract. It is well that appropriations be made for all purposes, but of great consequence that in the matter of contracts the expenses of the counties should be limited to the amounts appropriated. This is impossible in cases of positive service required by law and expenses incident to them; and in accordance with this view the legislature did not reimpose upon the county court any disability as to allowances.. . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. MacKey v. McDonald

3. ““It bad always been tbe practice in tbe state to issue warrants upon funds exhausted, as if they were in tbe treasury, although the particular fund was required to be specified.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Little Rock v. United States ex rel. Howard