Edwards v. Daigle’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2003
12 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 State ex rel. Dobbins v. McDermott
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In construing this provision of the statute a strict adherence `to the niceties of grammar rules' would compel us to say that in a case like this only one candidate could receive `the greatest number of votes' and therefore the Committee could declare the nomination of only one candidate but we are not held bound to such strict rules. To the contrary, it is our duty to discover, if possible, the intent of the lawmakers and the `true meaning of the law'. * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * The Civil Code lays down the following rules for the `Construction of laws': "`Art. 14. Usual Sense Gives Terms. The words of a law are generally to be understood in their most usual signification, without attending so much to the niceties of grammar rules as to the general and popular use of the words.' "`Art. 16. Context. Where the words of a law are dubious, their meaning may be sought by examining the context with which the ambiguous words, phrases and sentences may be compared, in order to ascertain their true meaning.' "`Art. 18. Reason and Spirit. The universal and most effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when its expressions are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which induced the Legislature to enact it.'”
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.