Ex Parte Hayward’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Courts have no power to legislate. It is [a] court’s duty to observe, not to disregard statutory provisions. Courts can neither ignore nor emasculate the statutes. Further, courts have no power to create an exception to a statute, nor do they have power to add to or take from legislative pains, penalties and remedies.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. City of Galveston · State v. Ross

2. “"The duty of the courts is to observe statutory provisions. It does not lie with them to arbitrarily disobey them. The rights of the public and the citizen are best protected by an observ-anee of the law as it is written where it does not overstep constitutional provisions.... ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ross

3. ““The sentence, as reformed, being valid, the relief prayed for is denied, and the Sheriff of Jefferson County is ordered to arrest and take into custody the applicant for the purpose of carrying out the sentence, as reformed. “It is so ordered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Tatmon v. State