Standeford v. Wingate’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An office established and held for the public good is not a contract, nor is its tenure secured by any binding contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mial v. Ellington.

2. “The point that it is a contract, or partakes of the nature of a contract, will not bear the test of examination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mial v. Ellington.