Barnes v. Minor’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The case at bar, however, presents such facts and conditions relating to- the sufficiency of the procedure, and the character and quantity of the lands sought to be affected thereby, as may,-and is likely to, be drawn in question and give, rise to a judicial inquiry as to their existence. So it was enacted that'such inquiry shall be had as a preliminary step to .the organization of the -corporation and the existence of its corporate powers. - - “Manifestly,’as it seems to us, the court in such a proceeding is -called upon to exert no other than its ordinary judicial functions.- The statute prescribes that, if certain steps have been taken and .certain facts exist, a governmental corporation shall be deemed to have been created, not otherwise, and the court by the exercise of its usual powers and by the observance of judicial methods ascertains and.determines that such steps have or have not been taken, or that such facts do or do not’.exist, and from these premises draws an inference or reaches a conclusion which it pronounces in a form of a judicial order -or judgment in like manner and in' like effect as in ordinary cases.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Dexter-Greenfield Drainage Dist.