Squires & Constables Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 10 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[I]n my view this Court possessed inherent power, quite aside from the provisions of the new Article V of the Constitution, to declare the incapatibility of political activity or governmental employment, on the one hand, and the holding of judicial office on the other hand. The source of this power is to be found in the Provincial Act of May 22, 1722, 1 Sm.L. 140, which invested this court with the jurisdiction and powers for all purposes which were exercised by the Justices of the Court of King’s Bench at Westminster. See, e. g., Carpentertown Coal & Coke Co. v. Laird, 360 Pa. 94, 99-100 , 61 A.2d 426 (1948); Carbon County Judicial Vacancy, 292 Pa. 300, 302-303 , 141 A. 249 (1928). See also Commonwealth ex rel. Fox v. Swing, 409 Pa. 241 , 186 A.2d 24 (1962) (dissenting opinion). Id. at 511-512, 275 A.2d at 662 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Franciscus