Peele v. Gillespie’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “We will not interpret a statute which is clear and unambiguous on its face. We must examine and treat it as a whole, giving the statute its apparent and obvious meaning. In construing a statute, our foremost duty is to determine and give effect to the true intent of the legislature. We presume words appearing in the statute were intended to have meaning, and we endeavor to give those words their plain and ordinary meaning absent a clearly manifested purpose to do otherwise. Further, it is just as important to recognize what a statute does not say as it is to recognize what it does say. We may not read into the statute that which is not the expressed intent of the legislature.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. J.D. · Town of Leo-Cedarville v. Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission

2. “the [Indiana Collateral Source Rule] clearly states that collateral source payments in the nature of insurance benefits which the plaintiff or a member of his family have paid for directly are not admissible as evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pendleton v. Aguilar

3. “the legislature [had] intended to exclude underinsured motorist benefits paid to an insured by his own insurer from the broad category of insurance benefits, ... it could have done so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pendleton v. Aguilar