State v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In interpreting a statute, our task is to discern what the legislature intended. That inquiry begins with the text of the statutory provision itself, because the text is the best evidence of the legislature’s intent. Also pertinent at that first level of analysis is the context of the statute under consideration. Context includes other related statutes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Johnson