Fritts v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. “Yet, when a regulatory measure, enacted pursuant to a government’s authority to protect the public health, morals and safety, is challenged as breaching this concept of fundamental fairness, a reviewing court has a limited duty. The court’s job is not to scrutinize the underlying wisdom of the challenged legislation; rather, if the court is able to conceive of a rational basis for the regulatory measures that is reasonably related to the legitimate governmental interest in protecting the public, the measure must be sustained.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Neece v. City of Johnson City