Hansen v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mengelkamp v. List · State Industrial Insurance System v. Miller · Langon v. Washoe County
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.
“It is axiomatic that when words of a statute are plain and unambiguous, they will be given their plain meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.