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State v. Stiffarm’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
2
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

28 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Payne v. Tennessee · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Montana Horse Products Co. v. Great Northern Railway Co. · State v. Sullivan · Western Energy Co. v. State, Dept. of Rev.

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.

  1. “a statute is to be construed according to its plain meaning, and if the language is clear and unambiguous, no further interpretation is required.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “In the construction of a statute, the office of the judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted or to omit what has been inserted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re JA
  3. “[e]xpiration of the period of suspension or deferral after the petition [for revocation] is filed does not deprive the court of its jurisdiction to rule on the petition.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re JA

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.