Pack v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The question being one .of organizing the inhabitants of a particular territory for the purposes of local government, the legislature, on consideration of the scheme proposed, concluded to modify it to the extent of conferring county powers where only township powers had been proposed. To attempt, on this record, to indicate the limits of constitutional power in the amendment of bills previously introduced, would be uncalled for, and therefore unwarranted. It suffices to say that in this case, where the general purpose has been kept in view, and a design to circumvent or disregard the Constitution is not apparent, it cannot be held that the constitutional authority has been exceeded. No one disputes that whatever is within the proper scope of amendment is as much admissible after the fifty days as before, and this must embrace whatever is germane to the purpose which the bill had in view.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People ex rel. Board of Supervisors v. Loomis

2. ““No new bill shall be introduced into either house of the legislature after the first fifty days of a session shall have expired.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Common Council v. Schmid