429 So. 2d 1036 - Moore v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This Court has continually held that ‘a public office which the legislature creates is not the property of the office holder within the constitutional provision against depriving a man of property, nor does it ever become a vested right as against the right of the state to remove him.’ Moore v. Watson, 429 So.2d 1036 (Ada.1983) (emphasis added). See also Simpson v. Van Ryzin, 289 Ala. 22 , 265 So.2d 569 (1972); Heck v. Hall, 238 Ala. 274 , 190 So. 280 (1939).””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Zanda v. City of Decatur · City of Birmingham v. Graffeo

2. “'person clearly must have more than an abstract need or desire for it. He must, instead, have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 692 So. 2d 808 - City of Dora v. Beavers