State Ex Rel. Wright v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Marie v. Standard Steel Works (1959), State v. Liberty (2012)
34 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 Laclede Gas Co. v. City of St. Louis · Greene County v. Lydy · State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. Carolene Products · State Ex Rel. Smith v. Atterbury · State ex rel. Buchanan County v. Imel
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining the intent and meaning of statutory language, the words must be considered in context and sections of the statutes in pari materia, as well as cognate sections, must be considered in order to arrive at the true meaning and scope of the words.”
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.