Johnson v. People’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In most of the states, the Constitution provides that no act of the Legislature shall embrace more than one subject, and that such subject shall be expressed in the title of the act. This provision is mandatory, and if it is disregarded, the whole statute, or any separable part of it not embraced within the title, will be rejected as unconstitutional. But this requirement is construed Uberally, and the courts are unwilling to defeat or embarrass legislation by putting too strained or technical a construction upon this clause of the Constitution” Black’s Constitutional Law, § 107, p. 286. “In regard to the degree of particularity required in the title of a statute, it is the accepted doctrine that it is sufficient if the title describes, with adequate clearness, the general purpose and scope of the act. It need not amount to ati index or epitome of the statute, nor is it necessary that the title should set forth the modes, means, and instrumentalities provided in the law for its administration and enforcement. For example, a law incorporating a city, or one granting franchises to a business corporation, or one relating to the general subject of elections, or one regulating the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, or one providing a general system of taxation for the state, will contain a great number of detailed and specific provisions. But if_ they all relate to the general subject-matter of the act, and are all germane to its general purpose, it is not necessary th”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Van Dyke v. Geary

2. ““It was Field tn Johnson v. People, 83 Ill. 431 , that the Constitution ‘does nor, require that the subject of the hill must he specifically and exactly expressed in the title; hence we conclude that any expression in the title which calls attention to the subject of the bill, although in general terms, is all that is required.’ People v. Lowenthal, 93 Ill. 191 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Van Dyke v. Geary