Ex Parte Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2005
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Cheney v. State · Alejos v. State · Pennington v. State · Passmore v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The in para materia rule is a principle of statutory interpretation whose purpose is to carry out the full legislative intent by giving effect to all laws and provisions bearing on the same subject. It proceeds on the supposition that several statutes relating to one subject are governed by one spirit and policy, and are intended to be consistent and harmonious in their several parts and provisions. The rule applies where one statute deals with a subject in comprehensive terms and another deals with a portion of the same subject in a more definite way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If a general provision conflicts with a special or local provision, they shall be construed, if possible, so that effect is given both. If the conflict between the provision is irreconcilable, the special or local provision prevails as an exception to a general provision, unless the general provision is the later enactment and the manifest intent is that the general provision prevail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzalez v. State
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.