Harris v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Tarrant v. Department of Taxes (1999), Chittenden Town School District v. Department of Education (1999)
1 district · 32 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 Gurliacci v. Mayer · Paquette v. Paquette · In Re AC · In Re Hanrahan's Will · Murphy Motor Sales v. First Nat. Bank of St. Johnsbury
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]reat care. . . not to expand proper construction of a statute into judicial legislation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here legislative intent can be ascertained on its face, the statute must be enforced according to its terms without resort to statutory construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In construing statutes, courts have a duty to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the Legislature ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. J.S.
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.