Doll v. Flintkote Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Commission Council shall also have power: “Public Streets “(1) To order the ditching, filling, opening, widening, and paving of the public streets, and to regulate the grade thereof, and, by a two-thirds vote to sell or change the destination of any street, * * (Italics ours.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mix v. City of New Orleans · Doll v. Flintkote Co.

2. “and held that this provision meant a two-thirds vote of the members present and constituting a quorum, and not a two-thirds vote of all elected Council members. In the instant case, in addition to the general law quoted above which, in the absence of valid considerations to the contrary, must be applied here, we are impressed by four other provisions found in the City Charter, to-wit (all italics ours): Section 3-112(8) which provides”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mix v. City of New Orleans