Supinger v. Stakes’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Melendez (2000), Williams v. Williams (1998)
46 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Dimick v. Schiedt · Barr v. Town & Country Properties, Inc. · Etheridge v. Medical Center Hospitals · Pearson v. Yewdall · Smithey v. Sinclair Refining Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Language is ambiguous when it may be understood in more than one way, or simultaneously refers to two or more things.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`While in the construction of statutes the constant endeavor of the courts is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature, that intention must be gathered from the words used, unless a literal construction would involve a manifest absurdity. Where the legislature has used words of a plain and definite import the courts cannot put upon them a construction which amounts to holding the legislature did not mean what it has actually expressed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Williams“[a]ny `judgment as to the wisdom and propriety of a statute is within the legislative prerogative,' and this Court `will declare the legislative judgment null and void only when the statute is plainly repugnant to some provision of the state or federal constitution.'”
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.