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← 167 Vt. 613 - Harris v. Sherman

Harris v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
December 2023
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “[g]reat care. . . not to expand proper construction of a statute into judicial legislation.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[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
  3. “In construing statutes, courts have a duty to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the Legislature ....”
    1 later decision 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.