Smith v. Tiffany’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Foster v. California · Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union · United States v. Augenblick · United States v. Atlantic Research Corp. · Hodges v. Rainey
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statutory interpretation begins (and often ends) with the text of the statute in question. Absent an ambiguity, there is nothing for a court to construe, that is, a court should not look beyond the statutory text to discern its meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a statute is clear and explicit in its language, then there is no need to resort to statutory interpretation or legislative intent to determine its meaning.”
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.