Whitcomb v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2011
16 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 Kendall v. United States ex rel. Stokes · Edward Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · State v. Bryan · Louisville v. Savings Bank · Kimberlin v. State ex rel. Tow
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One such is that extrinsic evidence which attempts to establish legislative intent, can be used only in the case of an enactment or amendment to a constitution which is ambiguous on its face. On the other hand, when a statute or amendment to a constitution is clear, then no extrinsic evidence may be admitted as to legislative intent.... The erroneous use of extrinsic evidence in this situation would foster ambiguity where none exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.