Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2007
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Whitner v. State · Berkebile v. Outen · Culbertson v. Clemens · Mullinax v. J.M. Brown Amusement Co. · Mullinax v. J.M. Brown Amusement Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]his Court's primary function is to ascertain the intention of the legislature. ... The Court should consider not merely the language ... being construed, but the word[s] and [their] meaning in conjunction with the purpose of the whole statute and the policy of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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