Hamilton v. State’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. ““ It is an established rule in the construction of statutes that the intention of the laxv-giver is to be deduced from a view of the whole and every part of a statute, taken and compared together. The real intention when accurately ascertained will always prevail over the literal sense of terms.” Hamilton v. The State, 102 Ill. 367 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gilbert v. Morgan