State v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But if it be true that the title is not broad enough to include the provisions relating to the penalty, the result contended for would not follow. The penal clause only would be void, and the act would stand in the same category as other statutes prohibiting the doing of particular acts, but providing no penalty for their violation; the doing of such acts being prohibited by the general statutes as misdemeanors, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Deer

2. ““But we think the title sufficient to include the penalty. The general rule under similar constitutional provisions is that a title such as the one in question is sufficiently broad to include a penalty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Merchant