Meeks v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

59 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he plain, obvious, and rational meaning of a statute is to be preferred over any curious, narrow, or strained construction.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Henderson v. Cook, Trustee for Noojin · Ford Motor Co. v. Gordon

2. “(1) A person is guilty of credit card or credit card number theft when: (a) He takes, obtains or withholds a credit card or credit card number from the person, possession, custody or control of another without the cardholder's consent or who , with knowledge that it has been so taken, obtained or withheld, receives the credit card or credit card number with intent to use it or sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder ; ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Scott v. Commonwealth

3. “[U]nder basic rules of statutory construction, we determine the General Assembly's intent from the words contained in the statute. When the language of a statute is unambiguous, courts are bound by the plain meaning of that language and may not assign a construction that amounts to holding that the General Assembly did not mean what it actually has stated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ricks v. Commonwealth