LePage v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2021
20 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 Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Corman v. State Ex Rel. Wyoming Workers' Compensation Division · Thomson v. Wyoming In-Stream Flow Committee · Walter v. Simmons · Worker's Compensation Claim of French v. Amax Coal West
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[where a statute uses the mandatory language 'shall, a court must obey the statute as a court has no right to make the law contrary to what is prescribed by the legislature.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The choice of the word 'shall' intimates an absence of discretion. ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any agency decision that falls outside the confines of the statutory guidelines articulated by the legislature is contrary to law and cannot stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayland v. Flitner
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.