State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frost-Benco Electric Ass'n v. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission · United States v. Nohara · United States v. Gregory K. Eisler, United States of America v. Robert Alan Hoff · Arvig Telephone Co. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. · State v. Paige
Most-quoted passages
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“[I]n the absence of ambiguity, [this court] will not disregard the letter of the law in the pursuit of its purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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