Heisse v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Cavanaugh v. Abbott Laboratories (1985), Sanders v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance (1987)
4 district · 30 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Baldwin · Lomberg v. Crowley · In Re JS · Holbrook Grocery Co. v. Commissioner of Taxes · Christie v. Dalmig, Inc.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the primary method of interpreting the meaning of a statute is through the “plain meaning rule”: “The most elemental rule of statutory construction is that the plain meaning of the statute controls. If confusion or ambiguity does not appear, then the statute is not construed but rather is enforced in accordance with its express terms.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.