Briggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kirby v. Illinois · Tucker v. Fireman's Fund Insurance · Ludwig v. Massachusetts · Kushell v. Department of Natural Resources · Randall Book Corp. v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While penal statutes are to be strictly construed against the State and in favor of the defendant, so that only punishment contemplated by the words of the statute is meted out, the construction to be given a statute must depend upon discerning the intention of the Legislature when it drafted and enacted it. This requires reading and interpreting the entire statute, neither adding, nor deleting, words in order to give it a meaning not otherwise evident by the words actually used. Moreover, construction requires that the statute be given a reasonable interpretation, not one that is illogical or incompatible with common sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hammonds v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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