Hounshell v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
March 2024
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daou v. Harris · State Ex Rel. Larson v. Farley · State v. Tarango · State v. McFall · Unum Life Insurance Co. of America v. Craig
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the language used by [the Legislature] is plain and unambiguous and leads to no absurd result, the courts are not justified in substituting their opinion of what was intended for the intent of the Legislature so expressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The law is the legislation, not the fact sheets or bill summaries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contrary to the plain wording of the statute”
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.