State v. Hume’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a generally recognized principle ‘ that migratory fish in the navigable waters of a state, like game within its borders, are classed as animals ferae naturae, the title to which, so far as that claim is capable of being asserted before possession is obtained, is held by the State in its sovereign capacity in trust for all its citizens; and, as .an incident of the assumed ownership, the legislative assembly may enact such laws as tend to protect the species from injury by human means and from extinction by exhaustive methods of capture.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Portland Fish Co. v. Benson

2. ““ ‘The individual,’ says Mr. Justice Hadley in Smith v. State, 155 Ind. 611 ( 58 N. E. 1044 , 51 L. R. A. 404) ‘has no natural right to take game, or to acquire property in it, and all the right he possesses or can possess in this respect is granted him by the state.’ The state being thus invested with the title to animals ferae naturae, they cannot be lawfully captured by any person without the express or implied permission of the state.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Lessard