Stokes v. Galloway’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When the title of an amendatory act gives the number of a section of a statute designed to be amended and also expresses a subject that is different from the one contained in the section to be amended, the title is deceptive and misleading, and the amendatory act fails, because the subject expressed in the title of the amending act is not the subject of the section purported to be amended. But where the title of the amending statute correctly gives the number of the section of a law designed to be amended, and also briefly expresses the subject of the section to be amended, the title is sufficient, even though the title also contains matter germane to the subject, but not included in the subject of the section amended. Such a title is not false or misleading, if, in addition to the number and the subject of the section amended, it contains other cognate matter that is within one general subject briefly expressed in the title of the amending law.” (54 So. p. 800)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 251 So. 2d 265 - Shepard v. Thames