State v. Pack’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A party who was properly appointed to office of justice of the peace under a valid certificate of appointment under which he took office and exercised powers thereof openly and notoriously for about two months was a de facto officer, and his official act in hearing and disposing of charge against defendant of operating an automobile at an excessive rate of speed could not be attacked collaterally by defendant through motion to dismiss the information on ground such party was not a justice of the peace on date of the trial in that he had failed to file statutory bond.””

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