The statements, which were made public
by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, marked the first time in recent memory that the Legislature's top leaders earned little beyond their taxpayer - funded salaries and showed a stark departure from the tenures
of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County), who
frequently reported earning
hundreds of thousands
of dollars from outside legal work.
A simple search
of published court decisions shows that Wikipedia is
frequently cited
by judges around the country, involving serious issues and the bizarre — such as a 2005 tax case before the Tennessee Court
of Appeals concerning the definition
of «beverage» that involved
hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and, just this week, a case in Federal District Court in Florida that involved the term «booty music» as played during a wet T - shirt contest.