Logan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 8 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We normally construe a statute according to its “plain [textual] meaning” with out resort to extratextual sources. We will, however, resort to extratextual sources such as legislative history to construe a statute if we decide that the statute is ambiguous or that construing the statute according to its “plain [textual] meaning” will lead to “absurd consequences.” These general rules of statutory construction are aids to effect our overriding constitutional duty to effectuate what the Legislature intended when it enacted the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Robledo v. State

2. “with the intent to defraud or deceive an insurer, the person ... presents to an insurer in support of a claim for payment under a ... property and casualty insurance policy a statement that the person knows contains false or misleading information concerning a matter that is material to the claim, and the matter affects a person’s right to a payment or the amount of payment to which a person is entitled.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nguyen v. State