Hodges v. Quire’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1992
10 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 United States v. Shreveport Grain & Elevator Co. · Joy v. City of St Louis · Kentucky Lumber & Mill Work Co. v. Kentucky Title Savings Bank & Trust Co. · Commonwealth on Relation v. Fenley · Webster v. Industrial Acceptance Corporation
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well settled rule that punctuation is a fallible standard of the meaning of a statute and is resorted to only as a last resort in construing doubtful statutes. Punctuation marks are no part of an act and to determine legislative intent, punctuation will be disregarded or the phrase repunctuated if that is necessary in order to arrive at the natural meaning of the words employed. (Citations omitted.) Cf. Hodges, et al. v. Quire, 295 Ky. 78 , 174 S.W.2d 9 (1943).”
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.