Gates v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Donathan v. McMinn County (1948), Moore v. Fowinkle (1975)
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
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Most-quoted passages
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“However, we are relieved of all difficulty on this point, because chapter 2 and chapter 3 were companion acts passed at the same session of the Legislature and on the same subject — compulsory legalized primaries. The rule of construing statutes in pari materia is of peculiar force when such statutes are enacted at the same session of the Legislature. “This being so, and the statutes having been passed at the same session of the Legislature, they should be construed as one act.” Hill v. Roberts, 142 Tenn. 215 , 217 S.W. 826 , 828; Bird v. State, 131 Tenn. 518 , 175 S.W. 554 , Ann.Cas.l917A, 634. We can look, therefore, to one act to supply any deficiencies or omissions in the other. This is common practice in statutory construction. “Where two acts in pari materia are construed together, and one contains provisions omitted from the other, the omitted provisions will be applied in the proceeding under the act not containing such provisions, where not inconsistent with the purpose of the act.” 59 C.J. 1050.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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