Ullery v. Othick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

86 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'An appellate court must first attempt to ascertain legislative intent through the statutory language enacted, giving common words their ordinary meanings. When a statute is plain and unambiguous, an appellate court does not speculate as to the legislative intent behind it and will not read into the statute something not readily found in it. Where there is no ambiguity, the court need not resort to statutory construction. Only if the statute's language or text is unclear or ambiguous does the court use canons of construction or legislative history or other background considerations to construe the legislature's intent.' [Citations omitted.]”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pearson v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue · In re Marriage of Gerleman

2. “is that the intent of the legislature governs if that intent can be ascertained.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 56 Kan. App. 2d 857 - In re Marriage of Towle and LeGare