Welch v. Post’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ Nor is there any authority found in the amendatory act' of 1869 that at all enlarges the powers of the town of Enfield in the matter of issuing bonds. Incorporated towns are omitted from the municipal corporations enumerated that may make donations to the railway company and issue interest-bearing bonds in payment. "Why incorporated towns were omitted in that act can not now be known. It may have been done advisedly or inadvertently. In either case the effect is precisely the same. By the original act, as we have seen, incorporated towns have the undoubted right to make donations to the railway company, payable by taxation, but had no right to issue bonds, maturing in tííe future, in payment. The amendatory act does not even purport to confer additional authority on incorporated towns in that regard, neither in the title nor the text of the bill. What seems to have been deliberately omitted by the General Assembly can not be supplied by judicial construction. That would invade the legislative department, which the court has- neither the right nor inclination to do.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coquard v. Village of Oquawka