Fullerton v. School District’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “•‘When the proceedings have been conducted in good faith, and a request, properly signed, has been acted upon by the officer or-officers upon whom the law imposes the duty of calling such meeting-, and the meeting 1ms been held, a.nd the object of the request indorsed by the legal voters of the district, we will not, in a collateral proceeding, inquire whether, all the persons signing said request had resided in the district a sufficient length of time to entitle them to vote therein or not. If they had not, any taxpayer of the district could enjoin the issuing of bonds, because unauthorized; but, after the meeting lias been held in pursuance of the notice, the bonds issued and sold, and the district has received the avails, it is too late to raise the objection.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chilton v. Town of Gratton

2. ““In a series of cases the court has refused to permit an inquiry into the qualifications of signers of petitions after the bonds had-boon issued and passed into the hands of innocent purchasers; but those eases are all based upon tlie distinction between the position of a taxpayer seeking relief promptly and one who has stood by until (lie rights of innocent purchasers have accrued.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chilton v. Town of Gratton