Foiles v. Whittman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 9 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Because it may be presumed that the General Assembly meant what it clearly said, where the statutory language is unambiguous, we do not resort to further rules of statutory construction to determine the statute's meaning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Steamboat Lake Water & Sanitation District v. Halvorson

2. “All related provisions of an act must be construed as a whole; thus, if more than one statute addresses an issue, the statutes should be read together.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reno, Chafee County Clerk and Recorder v. Marks

3. “we look first to the plain language of the statute, giving the language its commonly accepted and understood meaning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reigel v. SavaSeniorCare L.L.C.