State v. Rick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 40 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the Legislature’s intent is clear from the statute’s plain .and unambiguous language, then [an appellate court] inter-pretes] the statute according to its plain meaning without resorting to canons of statutory construction. But, if a statute is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, then the statute is ambiguous and [the court] may consider the canons of statutory construction to ascertain its meaning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Minnesota v. Adaiah Deontraie Townsend

2. “If the Legislature's intent is clear from the statute's plain and unambiguous language, then we interpret the statute according to its plain meaning without resorting to the canons of statutory construction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Great N. Ins. Co. v. Honeywell Int'l, Inc.

3. “a technical or special meaning [to a word or phrase] depends in part upon the context in which the word appears.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bowen