Harvey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 16 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]n succeeding years, the goal of full state funding of court operations was not fulfilled. Nevertheless, the state continue[d] to fund one hundred percent of 36th Judicial District judges' pensions. The retirement systems and pensions of judges outside the 36th Judicial District continue[d] to be funded by both state and local sources.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ernst v. Rising · Ernst v. Rising

2. “The state, by assuming the entire funding of the pensions of 36th District judges in the financially distressed city of Detroit, made those pensions more secure. Certainly the Legislature would or could understand that this would induce competent and qualified attorneys to become judges or to remain judges.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ernst v. Rising · Ernst v. Rising

3. “`arbitrary and wholly unrelated in a rational way to the objective of the statute.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Derror · Phillips v. Mirac, Inc