Farrington v. Flood’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““At the time and place designated in the notice aforesaid, the male and female inhabitants who are freeholders and registered voters present, being not less than two-thirds of those whom it is proposed to incorporate, and not less than twenty-five in number, shall select a corporate name and seal for the municipality which they propose to form, and designate by definite metes and bounds the territorial limits thereof. They shall then proceed to choose by a vote of a majority of the said male and female inhabitants who are freeholders and registered voters a mayor and not more than nine and not less than five aldermen, who shall be known as the city council, and in whom it shall vest the government of the city.” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Daytona Beach Shores v. State ex rel. Membery

2. “In such a case any person affected injuriously by the attempted incorporation of an area into a municipality may challenge the validity of an organization directly by bill in equity brought for that purpose; provided the question of invalidity is raised as soon as reasonably possible, so that no element of estoppel, laches or acquiescence intervenes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 31 Fla. Supp. 151 - Jackson v. Consolidated Government