Harrington v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Baker v. Humphrey (1879), 382 Wis. 2d 496 - Tetra Tech EC, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue (2018)
51 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 Jones v. Estate of Keep
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he true rule for the construction of statutes is, to look to the whole and every part of the statute, and the apparent intention derived from the whole, to the subject matter, to the effects and consequences, and to the reason and spirit of the law; and thus, to ascertain the true meaning of the legislature, though the meaning so ascertained may sometimes conflict with the literal sense of the words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if possible, no clause, sentence, or word, shall be superfluous, void or insignificant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“every clause and word of a statute shall be presumed to have been intended to have some force and effect.”
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.