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← 17 A3D 1005 - State v. Graff

State v. Graff’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Corey v. United States · Little v. Conflict of Interest Commission · Kaya v. Partington · State v. Santos · In Re Brown

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “when the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, [this Court] must interpret the statute literally and must give the words of the statute their plain and ordinary meanings.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “In our approach to [the] interpretive task, we are mindful that our ultimate goal is to give effect to the General Assembly's intent.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “under no circumstances will this Court construe a statute to reach an absurd result.”
    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.