State v. Twiggs’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Marion · United States v. Ewell · Grunewald v. United States · Toussie v. United States · DiProspero v. Penn
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not view [statutory] words and phrases in isolation but rather in their proper context and in relationship to other parts of [the] statute, so that meaning can be given to the whole of [the] enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“if a literal reading of the statute would yield an absurd result, particularly one at odds with the overall statutory scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.