4 Smith & H. 222 - Peay v. Nolan’s Empirical Analysis

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55 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “To sustain an appropriation in gross as an allowance for expenses and not a forbidden increase of compensation, the sum must be within such reasonable limits as to authorize the conclusion that the sum in gross might be covered by a certified statement of the official expenses incurred by the designated beneficiary. An appropriation in gross so large as to suggest that it would not be covered by an itemized statement of official expenses, and so appropriated as to make it the absolute property of the official without regard to actual expenses, is an increase in compensation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Barker v. Harmon

2. “For the purpose of determining the constitutionality of a statute, it is the function of the court, first to ascertain its meaning by the application of ordinary canons of construction, and then to decide whether, as thus construed, the enactment is within the scope of the legislative power.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Estrin v. Moss

3. “It is not the form of a statute or the words that are used, but the object intended and the result reasonably effected by their use, that must control the determination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Estrin v. Moss