76 Okla. Crim. 271 - Shaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 19 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If by any fair intendment the provisions in the body of an.act have a necessary and proper connection with the title, and are not incongruous with the title, or without proper connection or relation therewith they are sufficiently covered by the title. . “The term ‘subjects’ as used in Arr tide 5, Section 57, qf the Oklahoma Constitution to the effect that ‘Every act of the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title,’ is to be given a broad and extensive meaning so as to allow the legislature full scope to include in one act all matters having a logical or natural connection.””

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

2. ““The determination of the legislature that the acts defined involve such danger to the public peace and security of the State that they should be penalized in the exercise of the police power must be given great weight and every presumption be indulged in favor of the validity of the statute, which could be declared unconstitutional only if an attempt to exercise arbitrarily and unreasonably the authority vested in the State in the public interest.””

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