Manuel v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A court does not construe the meaning of statutory terms in a vacuum. Rather, we interpret the words in their context and with a view to their place in the overall statutory scheme.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. S. Dearborn Envtl. Improvement Ass'n, Inc. v. Dep't of Envtl. Quality

2. “the term is commonly defined as 'an administrative or operational branch of an organization' ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 324 Mich. App. 614 - Beatrice Boler v. Governor