Baugher v. Rudd’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. ““The former (the road law of 1871) is a special provision governing a class of cases in which the public interest demanded special protection. The rule of construction is that ‘a general affirmative statute does not repeal a prior particular statute, or particular provisions of a prior statute, upon the same subject, unless there is an invincible repugnancy between the two.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carr v. State ex rel. Smith