Dollman v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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

1. ““Whether a state or municipality or other corporation exercising a subdivision of its sovereignty is included by the terms of a statute — not being expressly named — must be determined by a consideration of the subject-matter of the statute, its purpose and effect. Where the statute primarily refers to matters foreign to the ordinary functions of public corporations, and imposes burdens, duties, or liabilities upon them without any corresponding benefits, the inference must be that it'was not the legislative purpose that such corporation should be subject to its provisions. The inconvenience which would arise from subjecting these bodies, created for the performance of public functions, to be proceeded against as garnishee at law and in equity, and where a mere neglect to respond to a summons would subject the public represented by such corporation to the burden of a judgment for the demand of the attaching creditor is strongly persuasive against such construction of the statute as would include these bodies.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Jackson v. State Ex Rel. Mitchell