In re Dwyer’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2006
13 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · United States v. Stevenson · Johnson v. Washington Loan & Trust Co. · United States v. Bashaw · State ex rel. Ayers v. Kipp
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a cardinal principle of statutory construction to give effect to the legislative intent where possible. It is further an established principle of statutory construction that, where the wording of an act is changed by amendment, it is evidential of an intent that the words shall have a different construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`it is to be presumed that it was the intent (of the legislature) to alter the meaning of the previous act in that particular.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Heisinger
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.