Bolus v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Quo warranto is the Gibraltar of stability in government tenure. Once a person is duly elected or duly appointed to public office, the continuity of his services may not be interrupted and the uniform working of the government machinery disorganized or disturbed by any proceeding less than a formal challenge to the office by that action which is [now] venerable with age, reinforced by countless precedent, and proved to be protective of all parties involved in a given controversy, namely quo warran-to.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fraternal Order of Police, Queen City Lodge No. 10 v. City of Allentown

2. “It is when both agencies decline that a private person may have standing but only if he or she has a special interest, or if he or she has been specially damaged as distinguished from a right or interest of the public in general. See Mayer, Spykerman. A private person, however, must first seek to have the Attorney General’s Office or the local district attorney’s office file a quo war-ranto action before he or she can proceed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fraternal Order of Police, Queen City Lodge No. 10 v. City of Allentown