Wooten v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2013
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Talley v. Harris · Johnson v. Short · Newell v. Musgrove · Midland Valley R. Co. v. Lowery · Board of Education v. State Board of Education
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(aln inept or incorrect choice of words [in the statute] will not be construed or applied in such manner as to destroy the real and obvious purpose of a legislative enactment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A statutory construction which would lead to an absurdity will be avoided if this can be done without violating the evident legislative intent.”
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.