Commonwealth v. Castellanos

How courts have described this case

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

• \The word 'includes' has been found by the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions to be a term of extension or enlargement when used in a statutory definition.\
• when the legislature employs the same words in different parts of a statute, then, absent any manifest indication to the contrary, the meaning attributed to the words in one part should be ascribed to the same words found elsewhere in the statute
• “[W]hen, as here, the legislature employs the same words or phrases in different parts of a statute, . . . the meaning attributed to the words or phrases in one part of the statute should be ascribed to the same words or phrases found elsewhere in the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).