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Bailey v. City of Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis

972 F.2d 1447 · 1992

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
August 2004
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Hendrick v. Avent · Wolf v. City of Fitchburg · Parrett v. City of Connersville · State v. Smithers

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

  1. “Where a word or a phrase has not been otherwise defined in a statute [as is the case in section 844(h)(1) with the word”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Courts are bound to construe a statute to avoid absurd results....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “], a court should give it its plain and ordinary meaning.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.