Green v. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably Verrastro v. Sivertsen (1982), All Brand Importers, Inc. v. Department of Liquor Control (1989)
28 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 Hurlbut v. Lemelin · Jones v. Civil Service Commission · Colli v. Real Estate Commission · Sillman v. Sillman · Shulman v. Zoning Board of Appeals
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basic rule of statutory construction requires us to ascertain the intention of the law-making body; and to construe the statute in a manner that effectuates that intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is fundamental that statutory construction requires us to ascertain the intent of the legislature and to construe the statute in a manner that effectuates that intent.”
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.