Gallaway v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the issuance of such deficiency certificate, the comptroller was merely performing an act within the scope of his public duties, and owed no duty to appellant in such issuance different from that he owed to all the public. As such public officer in the discharge of his official duties, mistakes of judgment, or improper construction of the laws defining his duties, do not give rise to a personal action against him, though some private individual may suffer loss as the result thereof. Such is the general rule founded upon sound public policy.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Torres v. Owens