In Re BAM’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2020
15 state decisions
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 California v. ARC America Corp. · Poola v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW · Constant v. United States · Commonwealth v. Koczwara · RM v. Baxter Ex Rel. TM
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object of all interpretation and construction of statutes is to ascertain and effectuate the intention of the General Assembly. Further, the General Assembly does not intend a result that is absurd, impossible of execution, or unreasonable. In interpreting statutes, a court should not assign a contrived meaning to clear language, nor should it construe the statute or provision in question so as to promote or further absurd results.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“shield young children from sexual predation by older teenagers and adults.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. AWC
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.