Gossage v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
September 2008
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · United States v. Louisiana · Yates v. Gober · Texas v. Cobb
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a basic rule of statutory construction that when there is a conflict between a statutory provision that treats a subject in a general way and another that treats the same subject in a specific way, the specific statute will prevail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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