State v. Savitz’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2024
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ratzlaf et Ux United States · State v. Arceo · Gray v. Administrative Director of Court · State v. Gaylord · In Re Water Use Permit Applications
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.
“When construing a statute, our foremost obligation is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature, which is to be obtained primarily from the language contained in the statute itself. And we must read statutory language in the context of the entire statute and construe it in a manner consistent with its purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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