Davey v. McShane’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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. ““If the thing wanting, or which failed to be done, and which constitutes the defect in the proceedings, is something the necessity for which the Legislature might have dispensed with by prior statute, then it is not beyond the power of the Legislature to dispense with it by subsequent statute. And if the irregularity consists in doing some act, or in the mode or manner of doing some act, which the Legislature might have made immaterial by prior law, it is equally competent to make the same immaterial by a subsequent law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grand Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen v. Fischer

2. ““All orders of the county courts of this state which were signed in writing by the county judge thereof prior to the taking effect of this act, and which have been heretofore attested by the clerk and filed in his office, are hereby declared to be legal, valid, complete and effective as such as of the date on which such orders were signed by the judge of such court, notwithstanding the provisions of section 317 of the code of civil procedure of 1903.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grand Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen v. Fischer