Meyer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Having thus made provision for the payment annually of the interest on the bonds, and ultimately for their redemption, the legislature offered them in payment of the legal claims against the old city government. The offer was accepted, and the holders of the latter surrendered their claims, in consideration of which the consolidated government issued to them its bonds, pursuant to the provisions of the act. The bonds carried with them the pledge of an annual tax for municipal purposes on all real and personal property within the city limits, except such as is exempt by law, of one hundred cents on the one hundred dollars, fifty-five per cent of which to be set apart and appropriated to an interest and sinking fund, to be applied to the payment of the annual interest upon the bonds and to their final redemption. The tax was the chief security offered the creditors as an inducement to accept the bonds in payment of their claims. When the bonds for whose payment, with interest, provision was thus made were issued and accepted by the creditors of the old city government, a contract was made as solemn and binding and as much beyond subsequent legislation as it would have been if made between private persons. These views will be found sustained and amplified in an able opinion recently rendered by the supreme court of the United States in a case entitled Louisiana v. Pilsbury, reported in 105 U. S. 278 .””

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

2. ““It is well occasionally to recall tbe fact tliat there is no more reason to permit a municipal government to repudiate its solemn obligations, entered into for 'value, than there is to permit an individual to do so. Good faith and fair dealing should be exacted of the one equally with the other.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Los Angeles City Water Co. v. City of Los Angeles