Fleckten v. Lamberton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““For the purpose of defraying extraordinary expenditures, the state may contract public debts, but such debts shall never, in the aggregate, exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; * * *.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Naftalin v. King · Visina v. Freeman

2. “The position of counsel for appellants seems to be that the constitution prohibits the building of a state capitol with surplus revenues now in the state treasury, or with funds to be raised by taxation during the time the capitol is being built, and applied directly to that purpose, and that it can only be built with the proceeds of bonds issued for that purpose. The expense of building a state capitol is not an ordinary, but an extraordinary, expense, within the meaning of sections 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of article 9 of the constitution, and counsel cites these sections as authority for his position.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Naftalin v. King

3. “The State shall never contract any public debt, unless in time of war, to repel invasion or suppress insurrection, except in the cases and in the manner provided in the fifth and sixth sections of this article.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Naftalin v. King