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← 852 P.2d 701 - Hurst v. Empie

Hurst v. Empie’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Riffe Petroleum Co. v. Great Nat. Corp., Inc. · Stemmons, Inc. v. Universal CIT Credit Corporation · State Ex Rel. Ogden v. Hunt · TIB CORP. v. Edmondson

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In the absence of a contrary definition, we must assume that the legislature intended the words used to have the meaning attributed to them in ordinary and usual parlance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Question Submitted by: Secretary Terry Cline, Ph.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services
  2. “The use of shall is directive rather than permissive. It excludes the idea of discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. JLEE Co. v. Reneau Seed Co.

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.