Herr v. Rudolf’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The state, any county or city may make internal improvements and may engage in any industry, enterprise or business, not prohibited by article XX of the constitution, but neither the state nor any political subdivision thereof shall otherwise loan or give its credit or make donations to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation except for reasonable support of the poor, nor subscribe to or become the owner of capital stock in any association or corporation.”

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

2. ““Summed up, these cases hold that' where a statute creates a classification of citizens to be differently affected by the same general rulé the classification must be natural and not artificial, reasonable and not arbitrary or capricious and ‘must rest upon some difference which bears a "reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lindberg v. Benson

3. ““The term ‘former owner’ as used in the statute must mean, not necessarily the mortgagor who borrowed from the bank and gave the land as security, but the owner, whether the mortgagor or his successor in interest, at the time of the issuance of deed to the state treasurer as trustee.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. TeSoro v. LaDue