State Ex Rel. Oster v. Jorgenson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 25 state decisions

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

1. “A general appropriation bill is not legislation in the true sense of the term. It is as its language implies “a setting apart of the funds necessary for the use and maintenance of the various departments of the state government already in existence and functioning. * * * In providing that it should embrace nothing else, the framers of the Constitution undoubtedly intended that members of the legislature should be free to vote on it knowing that appropriations and nothing else were involved.” Sellers v. Frohmiller, 42 Ariz. 239 , 24 P.2d 666 . Its singular subject is the appropriation of money. It serves no other purpose and its contents are constitutionally defined and limited.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Apa v. Butler · Duxbury v. Harding

2. “The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the state, the current 'expenses of state institutions, interest on the public debt, and for common schools. All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one object, and shall require a two-thirds vote of all the members of each branch of the Legislature.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Apa v. Butler · Duxbury v. Harding

3. “The court [in Miller Ins. Agency v. Porter, 93 Mont. 567 , 20 P.2d 643 ] said ordinary expenses include the current expenses of the government and “Any expense which recurs from time to time and is to be reasonably anticipated as likely to occur in order for the proper operation ... of the state government ...” Similarly the Ohio court in State ex rel. Jones [Janes ] v. Brown, 112 Ohio St. 590 , 148 N.E. 95 , said the phrase “current expenses of the state government and state institutions” in addition to those incident to officering and maintaining the state government “includes the preserving in repair and maintaining the property of the state government, and, as applied to roads, includes the maintaining and repairing thereof, as distinguished from new construction”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Apa v. Butler