Mackey v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An appropriation of public money, to be constitutional, must be for some use or object whichj directly or indirectly, in some deegree or manner will materially aid in the proper functioning of some governmental agency, and in so doing will serve a public purpose.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nancolas v. Jones