62 Tex. Crim. 11 - Ex Parte Cramer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We declare the true rule to be in the case of useful trades and employments, and a fortiori in other cases, that as an exercise of police power merely the amount exacted for a license, though designed for regulation and not for revenue, is not to be confined to the expense of issuing it; but that a reasonable compensation may be charged for the additional expense of municipal supervision over the particular business or vocation at the place where it is licensed. For this purpose the services of officers may be required and incidental expenses may be otherwise incurred in the faithful enforcement of such police inspection or superintendence. The rule further applies here that when the question as to the reasonableness of a municipal by-law or city ordinance is raised, and it has reference to a subject-matter within the corporate jurisdiction, it will be presumed to be reasonable, unless the contrary appears on the face of the law itself, or is established by proper evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hanzal v. City of San Antonio