Hardee v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2011
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bayle v. South Carolina Department of Transportation · South Carolina Uninsured Employer's Fund v. House · Miller v. Lawrence Robinson Trucking · Hardee v. McDowell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[If] the statute’s language is plain and unambiguous, and conveys a definite meaning, the rules of statutory construction are not needed and the court has no right to impose another meaning. What a legislature says in the text of a statute is considered the best evidence of legislative intent or will. Therefore, the courts are bound to give effect to the expressed intent of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Smalls
How this case has been treated — in progress
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