Sharris v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Marion · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Jackson v. Indiana · United States v. MacDonald · Miller v. Alabama
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the language of a statute is plain and unambiguous, it is conclusive as to the legislative intent”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“That said, we will not adopt a literal construction of a statute if the consequences of doing so are 'absurd or unreasonable,' such that it could not be what the Legislature intended.”
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.