State v. Monk’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1994
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Randall · Klause v. State ex rel. Department of Highways · State v. Monk
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a statute is ambiguous and susceptible of two constructions, courts should give that construction which best “com ports with the principles of reason, justice, and convenience,” rather than a construction which would make the statute meaningless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas
How this case has been treated — in progress
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