White v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

55 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘* * * In the first (referring to Subsection 1 of § 42-1314) it meant to include those furnishing chiefly entertainment or amusement for the public, such, for instance, as shows, races, games; and in the second, those supplying accommodations, either wholly or in part, for tourists or transients, such, for instance, as guest houses, dude ranches and resorts, hotels or tourist camps. One reading these two enumerations finds it difficult, if not impossible, to escape the conclusion that only businesses possessing these respective characteristics were intended to be included in these groups.’ % :ji * % j{í”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peterson v. Smith · 5 Ariz. App. 594 - Arizona State Tax Commission v. First Bank Building Corp.

2. ““Hotels, guest houses, dude ranches and resorts, rooming houses, apartment houses, automobile rental services, automobile storage garages, parking lots, tourist camps or any other business or occupation charging storage fees or rents and adjustment and credit bureaus and collection agencies.” (Emphasis supplied.) 3”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moore v. Arthur Realty Corp.

3. “it is difficult to believe that [they] would have attempted to carry it into effect in such an uncertain and doubtful manner, when [they] could have done so easily and naturally.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McElhaney Cattle Co. v. Smith