Gannon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 119 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'Substantial competent evidence is such legal and relevant evidence as a reasonable person might accept as being sufficient to support a conclusion.'”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 56 Kan. App. 2d 121 - Forrest v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue · Gannon v. State

2. “'In determining whether substantial competent evidence supports the district court's findings, appellate courts must accept as true the evidence and all the reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence which support the district court's findings and must disregard any conflicting evidence or other inferences that might be drawn from it. Accordingly, appellate courts do not reweigh the evidence or assess the credibility of witnesses. [Citations omitted.]'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 56 Kan. App. 2d 668 - Stephens v. Ainsworth · State v. Perry

3. “'[T]he best and only safe rule for ascertaining the intention of the makers of any written law, is to abide by the language they have used; and this is especially true of written constitutions, for in preparing such instruments it is but reasonable to presume that every word has been carefully weighed, and that none are inserted, and none omitted without a design for so doing.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hodes & Nauser, MDS, P.A. v. Schmidt · Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. v. Schmidt