State v. Westrum’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2001
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Mangold Midwest Co. v. Village of Richfield · Contos v. Herbst
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is imperative, if we are to give faithful effect to legislative intent, that the legislature should manifest its preemptive intent in the clearest terms. We can be spared the sometimes elusive search for such intent if it is declared by express terms in the statute. And where that is not done in the enactments of future legislatures, we shall be increasingly constrained to hold that statutes and ordinances on the same subject are intended to be coexistent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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