Wamstad v. Mangelsen’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kansas v. Crane · In re the Name Change of the State Bar Board · Burdick v. Wolff · Feland v. J.M. · Estate of Christeson v. Gilstad
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court's function is to interpret the statute as written by the legislature, and '[t]he justice, wisdom, necessity, utility and expediency of legislation are questions for legislative, and not for judicial determination.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ngale
How this case has been treated — in progress
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