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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.

  1. “[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
  2. “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.