State v. Neesley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Statutory Construction If the plain language of a statute would lead to absurd results, or if the language is not plain but rather ambiguous, then and only then, out of absolute necessity, is it constitutionally permissible for a court to consider, in arriving at a sensible interpretation, such extratex-tual factors as executive or administrative interpretations of the statute or legislative history.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hollis

2. “Section 724.012(a) of the Transportation Code permits a peace officer to take 'one or more specimens' whenever he has reasonable grounds to believe a DWI offense has occurred. And the DWI suspect 'is deemed to have consented' to the taking of 'one or more specimens' under Section 724.011 of the Transportation Code, the so-called 'implied consent' statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Briggs v. State

3. “may be understood by reasonably well-informed persons in two or more different senses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lang, Terri Regina