Torres v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Of course the legislature cannot abolish a constitutional office nor deprive the office of a single prescribed constitutional duty. Nor can this be done by indirection, such as depriving him of all statutory duties, thereby leaving the office in name only, an empty shell... . But such is not the case here ... we find the duties of the auditor substantially the same as previously performed by him... . * * * * * * If the framers of the constitution had not been mindful of the fact the legislature at some future time might wish to make changes such as are now before us, this would have been a mighty good place to confine the issuance of warrants to the State Auditor by name. [18]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 27 Utah 2d 56 - Preece v. Rampton

2. ““Of course the legislature cannot abolish a constitutional office nor deprive the office of a single prescribed constitutional duty. Nor can this be done by indirection, such as depriving him of all statutory duties, thereby leaving the office in name only, an empty shell. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. Legislative Audit Commission