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.
“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“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“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.