Autrey v. Parson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trimble v. Gordon · 503 So. 2d 249 - Baker by Williams v. Williams · 396 So. 2d 31 - Fayard v. Southern Trailer Distributors, Inc. · 798 So. 2d 456 - DePriest v. Barber · Johnson v. Ladner
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary rule of construction is to ascertain the intent of the [L]egislature from the statute as a whole and from the language used therein. Where the statute is plain and unambiguous there is no room for construction, but where it is ambiguous[,] the court, in determining the legislative intent, may look not only to the language used but also to its historical background, its subject matter, and the purposes and objects to be accomplished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Camp v. Stokes
How this case has been treated — in progress
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