Richardson v. Wile’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In Delaware, it is a settled rule of construction to read a statute as a whole in an effort to effectuate its general legislative intent. Specifically, this Court has held: The object of statutory construction is to give a sensible and practical meaning to a statute as a whole in order that it may be applied to future cases without difficulty ... and if a literal interpretation leaves a result inconsistent with the general statutory intention, such [interpretation] must give way to the general intent. This is particularly true where such a literal interpretation would lead to unjust and mischievous consequences.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Witkowski v. Brown · Cellwave Telephone Services L.P. v. Federal Communications Commission

2. “(9) To hear and determine questions of law certified to it by other Delaware courts and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware where it appears to the Supreme Court that there are important and urgent reasons for an immediate determination of such questions by it....”

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