Singleton v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““ . . . are vested with the entire and exclusive superintendence of the poor within their respective counties. It follows that the power to care for paupers within the respective counties is a corporate and administrative power.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sweet Clinic, Inc. v. Lewis County