State v. Boles’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Peters v. Forster · United National Insurance v. DePrizio · State Ex Rel. Smith v. Starke Circuit Court · Shoultz v. McPheeters · United Rural Electric Membership Corp. v. Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have stated on numerous occasions that [a] fundamental rule of statutory construction is that an amendment changing a prior statute indicates a legislative intention that the meaning of the statute has changed. We have also relied on a rule of statutory construction to the effect that when language from an earlier version of a statute is deleted, the Legislature intended to change the law by removing that language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.