Ash v. Merlette’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Montana v. United States · Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers · Hardin v. Jordan · United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Railroad Company v. Schurmeir
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ambiguous only if susceptible to two or more conflicting meanings, both of which are objectively reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.