Fenn v. Kinsey’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““At the time when the act of 1877 (Pub. Acts 1877, No. 132) was passed it is beyond question that the state was bound by the terms of the congressional grant, which were formally accepted by the law of 1857, (Laws 1857, No. 126) to dispose of none of these lands except for the specific purposes named in the Act of Congress. As the United States reserved a right to all lands not legally disposed of under the trust, and under the grant the state itself had no power to divert them, the Act of 1877 was in direct violation of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law violating the obligation of contracts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Huckfeldt v. State Board of School Land Commissioners