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Druley v. Houdesheldt’s Empirical Analysis

1956

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
March 2001
most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission (1993), Johnson v. Safeway Stores, Inc. (1977)

35 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Rasmussen v. Baker · Insurance Company v. Brame · Hanrick v. Patrick · State Ex Rel. Fawcett v. BOARD OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS · Tuttle v. Short

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

  1. ““ . . . Where the language of a statute is plain, unambiguous and conveys a clear and definite meaning, there is no occasion for resorting to rules of statutory construction, and the court has no right to look for and impose another meaning. Druley v. Houdesheldt, 1956, 75 Wyo. 155, 160 , 294 P.2d 351, 352 , reh. den. 75 Wyo. 155 , 296 P.2d 251 . Courts will not usurp the power of the legislature by deciding what should have been said. Barber v. State Highway Gomm’n, 1959, 80 Wyo. 340, 351 , 342 P.2d 723, 725 .””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jones Ex Rel. Jones v. State Department of Health · Johnson v. Safeway Stores, Inc.
  2. “"These questions, while of academic interest and potentially determinative in certain instances, are not requisite to adjudication of this case and need not be discussed."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Sage Club v. Hunt

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.