Wrightsman v. Gideon’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
February 1939
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State ex rel. Missouri & Mississippi Railroad v. Macon County Court · State ex rel. Maguire v. Draper · State v. Morrow
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a fair presumption that if the Legislature intends to repeal a statute, it will do so in express terms, or by the use of words which are equivalent to an express repeal, and the court will not, if it can be consistently avoided, adjudge that a statute is repealed by implication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Staub v. Phillips
How this case has been treated — in progress
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