Scott v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 1963
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1962
Relies on Cox v. City of Albuquerque · Rhea v. Smith · State v. Southern Pac. Co. · Lineker v. Dillon · Pugh v. Heating Plumbing Finance Corporation
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are committed to the doctrine that statutes should be construed in the most beneficial way of which their language is susceptible to prevent absurdity, hardships or injustice, to favor public convenience, and to oppose all prejudice to public interests, and although imperfect in form, they should be sustained by the courts if they can be construed to give them sensible effect. Cox v. City of Albuquerque, 53 N.M. 334 , 207 P.2d 1017 ; State v. Southern Pacific Co., 34 N.M. 306 , 281 P. 29 ; and Elkins v. Lallier, 38 N.M. 316 , 32 P.2d 759 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.