State v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. Prouse · Brown v. Texas · Crosby Secretary of Administration and Finance of Massachusetts v. National Foreign Trade Council · Heien v. North Carolina · 133 S. Ct. 1943 - Hillman v. Maretta
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the plain meaning of the words of the statute is insufficient guidance to ascertain legislative intent, we look beyond the language of a particular section standing alone to the whole statute, the subject matter, its effects and consequences, and the reason and spirit of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would significantly reduce the personal liberty of drivers, and passengers, on Vermont's highways by subjecting a substantial proportion of them to police stops without any commensurate benefit to public safety”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e construe statutes to avoid unreasonable consequences that are at odds with the Legislature's apparent 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.