Pamperin v. Scanlan’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2010
1 district · 17 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 Tinkcom v. Lewis · Bingham v. Board of Supervisors of Winona County · Lloyd v. Karnes
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of this statute are so very imperfect and in some respects so very obscure, that the task of construing them is one of great difficulty. Indeed, we do not think it possible to place a construction upon some of the provisions of this statute that will not be subject to grave objections and result in some serious practical difficulties. When called upon to construe so imperfect a statute, the best course for a court to pursue is to consider its general aim or purpose, and the plan adopted to carry that purpose into effect, and then adopt the construction that will in practice most nearly accomplish the object intended.”
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.