Nicholas v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions

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

1. “as a general rule of statutory construction, [the] enumeration of exclusions from the operation of a statute indicates that the statute should apply to all cases not specifically excluded.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vargas v. Owens · Kyle W. Larson Enterprises, Inc. v. Allstate Insurance Co.

2. “Where the language is clear and unambiguous, we need not resort to rules of statutory construction.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vargas v. Owens · Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Services, Corp. v. Owens

3. “is provided (quoting 2A Norman J. Singer, Sutherland Statutory Construction § 47.283, at 217 (5th ed.1992))). 129 Therefore, we reject Allstate's argument that additional categories of claimants are excluded from the statutory definition. 1 30 Although review of legislative history was not required given the plain language of the statute, we have reviewed it thoroughly and conclude it does not contradict our reading of the statute. Despite references by the bill's sponsor to claims by”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kyle W. Larson Enterprises, Inc. v. Allstate Insurance Co.