State v. Fryer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 state decisions

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

1. “When determining legislative intent, a “statute must be construed according to its manifest intent as derived from the statute as a whole.” Meyerink v. Northwestern Public Service Co., 391 N.W.2d 180, 183 (S.D.1986); see also, AGSCO Dakota, 453 N.W.2d at 851. Words used by the legislature are presumed to convey their ordinary, popular meaning. Meyerink, 391 N.W.2d at 183-84 . See also, Matter of Estate of Pejsa, 459 N.W.2d 243 (S.D.1990); Bryant v. Butte County, 457 N.W.2d 467 (S.D.1990). “This Court will not enlarge a statute beyond its face where the statutory terms are clear and unambiguous in meaning.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Arguello

2. “any person ... who has suffered pecuniary damages as a result of the defendant’s criminal activities, including any person who has by contract or by statute undertaken to indemnify another or to pay or provide a specified or determinable amount or benefit upon determinable contingencies. Any victim who has suffered pecuniary damages has priority of claim as opposed to any person who has a claim to indemnity or subrogation as a result of the same defendant’s criminal activity, (emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Galligo