Certain Taxpayers v. Sheahen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that, when one legislative act repeals another, the effect is to “obliterate” the original statute as though it never existed
• “effect of repeal is to obliterate the statute repealed as completely as though it had never been passed as a law and never existed”
• effect of repeal is to obliterate the statute repealed as completely as though it had never been passed as a law and never existed
• effect of repeal is to obliterate the statute repealed as completely as though it had never been passed as a law and never existed
• “The legislative intent should be sought primarily from the language used in the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).