Wiggs v. Edgecombe County’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
34 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey · Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co. v. Board of Commissioners · Burgess v. Your House of Raleigh, Inc. · State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. Edmisten · Diaz v. Division of Social Services
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the statute is clear and unambiguous, we will apply the plain meaning of the words, with no need to resort to judicial construction.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“may not be evaded by ... a court under the guise of construction. We will not engage in judicial construction merely to assume a legislative role and rectify what defendants argue is an absurd result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The best indicia of [legislative] intent are the language of the statute or ordinance, the spirit of the act and what the act seeks to accomplish.”
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.