Ray Bell Construction Co. v. School District’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Hodges v. Rainey (2000), Sloan v. South Carolina Board of Physical Therapy Examiners (2006)
62 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 Kiriakides v. United Artists Communications, Inc. · Whitner v. State · Meadowbrook Carting Co. v. Borough of Island Heights · La Mantia v. Durst · Staubes v. City of Folly Beach
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However plain the ordinary meaning of the words used in a statute may be, the courts will reject that meaning when to accept it would lead to a result so plainly absurd that it could not possibly have been intended by the Legislature or would defeat the plain legislative intention. If possible, the court will construe the statute so as to escape the absurdity and carry the intention into effect.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If a statute's language is plain and unambiguous, and conveys a clear and definite meaning, there is no occasion for employing rules of statutory interpretation....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.