State ex inf. Major v. Amick’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 19 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that repeals by implications are not to be favored. . . . In other words, it must not be supposed that the Legislature intended by a later statute to repeal a prior one on the same subject, unless the last statute is so broad in its terms and so clear and explicit in its words as to show that it was intended to cover the whole subject, and, therefore, to displace the prior statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 225 Mo. App. 1033 - McGill v. City of St. Joseph

2. “All consistent statutes relating to the same subject, and hence briefly called statutes in pari materia, are treated prospectively and construed together as though they constituted one act. This is true where the acts relating to the same subject were passed at different dates, separated by long or short intervals, at the same session or on the same day.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Moseley v. Lee