Ex Parte Towles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It was certainly the object of the framers of the Constitution to mark out a complete judicial system, by defining generally the province of each of the courts, by reference to the objects confided to the action of each, and the relation of each to the others. “To that extent it must be held to be permanent, and not subject to change by the action of the Legislature, except as a change may have been provided for. This is plainly, though incidentally, indicated by a special provision for a change in the jurisdiction of the county court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Whittenberg v. Craven

2. “The courts take jurisdiction of suits against the State, whether for money or for land certificates, only when the State has given its consent by statute, and then the jurisdiction is taken by such tribunals and under such regulations as the statute directs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Precision Solar Controls, Inc.

3. “to be the prosecution of some demand in a court of justice”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rogers v. Waggoner