Leyner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The liquor law of 1855 was approved February 16, of that year. It contained a clause repealing all acts inconsistent with its own provisions; and also a clause saving pending suits under former laws. It is insisted that the repealing and saving clauses took effect upon the approval of the act in February, 1855. But this position is clearly untenable. It is true that the thirty-ninth section is in the present tense—that all acts are hereby repealed, and actions now pending are saved (Laws of 1855, pp. 222, 223) ; but this section must be taken in connection with the forty-second section, which expressly provides that the act shall take effect and be in force from and after the 12th of June next. Id., p. 223. The repealing and saving clauses, therefore, speak from that date, and not from the date of the. approval.””

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