State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the parliamentary practice of England, the United States, and all other countries where the science of legislation has been cultivated and developed, it is customary to divide legislative enactments into sections. (Town of Martinsville v. Frieze, 33 Ind. 507, 509 .) By the constitution of this state the section is made the indivisible unit of the legislative fabric. To insure the diligent attention of the legislative mind, the reading of. a bill by sections at the time of final passage in no case can be dispensed with. (Const., art. 2, § 15.) To prevent members of the leg islature from practicing deception by the enactment of blind and confusing amendments, to prevent them from misleading themselves and the public as to changes in the law, and .to remove the difficulties and uncertainties accompanying extended examinations and comparisons of various acts to ascertain the true state of the statute law upon any subject (The People v. Mahoney, 13 Mich. 481 ), the constitutional provision quoted above was adopted by the people, making it necessary to embody in every amendatory act the entire section or sections amended and providing that the section or sections amended shall be repealed. This constitutional requirement is mandatory and invalidates all acts in contravention of its terms. (The State v. Guiney, 55 Kan. 532 , 40 Pac. 926 ; In re Ashby, 60 Kan. 101 , 55 Pac. 336 ; 26 A. & E. Encycl. of L. 709.)” (The State v. Carter, 74 Kan. 156, 162 , 86 Pac. 138 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hicks v. Davis