Lee v. Massie’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2024
10 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 Murzyn v. United States · Wescott v. Allstate Insurance · Culbert v. Sampson's Supermarkets Inc. · Delano v. City of South Portland · Singal v. City of Bangor
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ach of the cases arriving at [that] conclusion ... is premised on a statutory configuration more closely aligned than is Maine's to the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act which provides no discrete, free-standing definition of a fugitive from justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because the Maine Legislature omitted such language indicating the illustrative nature of its earlier definitional formulation ... we conclude - 18 - that [it] intended [the provision] to constitute a comprehensive and exclusive definition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As a general principle of statutory construction, enactments made by a subsequent Legislature may be examined to illuminate the meaning of prior legislative terminology that is ambiguous.”
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.