Hilts v. Markey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As matters now stand, there is nothing whatever in Article XX which gives to the people of the city and county of Denver power to legislate upon anything whatever, concerning matters solely of state and county governmental import, except merely the designation of certain agents to perform therein the acts and duties incident thereto. These excerpts from our own decisions serve to conclusively show that the people of the city and county of Denver have no power whatever to legislate in the slightest degree upon any matter solely affecting state and county affairs. Such has been the construction given Article XX, and none other was possible if the article was to stand.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.

2. ““It was this original construction of the purpose and intent of Article XX, to the effect that the people of the city and county of Denver had power to legislate upon and regulate matters of local concern only, that made it possible for the court to uphold and validate it, and this construction has ever since been rigidly and vigilantly upheld and maintained.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.