2015 Pa. Super. 243 - Commonwealth v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 270 Pa. Super. 280 - Commonwealth v. Charles · 2011 Pa. Super. 84 - Commonwealth v. Coleman · 2006 Pa. Super. 229 - Trombetta v. Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. · Official Court Reporters v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board · 2015 Pa. Super. 216 - Commonwealth v. Williams
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n intrinsic aid to statutory construction is found in the maxim expressio unius est exclusio alterius. The maxim establishes the inference that, where certain things are designated in a statute, all omissions should be understood as exclusions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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