Finks v. Maine State Highway Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• “In the construction of a statute, nothing should be treated as surplusage, if a reasonable interpretation supplying meaning and force is possible”
• Legislature is presumed to have in mind previous decisions of this Court when enacting statutes
• “Every statute must be construed in connection with the whole system of which it forms a part and all legislation on the same subject matter must be viewed in its overall entirety in order to reach a harmonious result which we presume the Legislature intended.”
• \Every statute must be construed in connection with the whole system of which it forms a part and all legislation on the same subject matter must be viewed in its overall entirety in order to reach a harmonious result which we presume the Legislature intended.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

44 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Dyer v. Department of Transportation
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2008-06-26· cited 276×
• Labbe v. Nissen Corp.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-07-19· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-29· cited 58×
• Delano v. City of South Portland
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-08-27· cited 38×
• Givertz v. Maine Medical Center
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1983-04-26· cited 36×
• Town of Arundel v. Swain
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-06-08· cited 35×
• Uliano v. Board of Environmental Protection
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2009-08-13· cited 34×
• Mundy Ex Rel. Pamela v. Simmons
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1980-12-30· cited 32×
• Whitney v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2006-04-11· cited 32×
• Schwanda v. Bonney
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1980-08-07· cited 28×
• In Re Belgrade Shores, Inc.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-06-11· cited 26×
• Director of the Bureau of Labor Standards v. Cormier
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1987-06-24· cited 26×
• State v. Tullo
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-12-02· cited 22×
• Lewis v. State Department of Human Services
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-08-12· cited 20×
• Soucy v. BD. OF TRUSTEES OF STATE RET. SYSTEM
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1983-03-08· cited 19×
• State v. Boynton
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-11-18· cited 17×
• State v. Norton
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-02-26· cited 16×
• Dyer v. Maine Drilling & Blasting, Inc.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2009-12-17· cited 15×
• Small v. Gartley
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-09-08· cited 15×
• International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO v. Verso Corp.
  D. Maine· 2015-08-03· cited 15×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• City of Biddeford Ex Rel. Board of Education v. Biddeford Teachers Ass'n
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-04-30· cited 67×
• United States v. A. S. Kreider Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-05-26· cited 60×
• King Resources Co. v. Environmental Improvement Commission
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1970-11-19· cited 52×
• Crommett v. City of Portland
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1954-09-03· cited 36×
• Town of Windham v. LaPointe
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-07-31· cited 27×
• State v. Noyes
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1859-07-01· cited 25×
• Maine State Housing Authority v. Depositors Trust Co.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-06-23· cited 22×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-06-22· cited 22×
• Palmer v. Inhabitants of Sumner
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1935-03-11· cited 20×
• Grudnosky v. Bislow
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1958-03-07· cited 18×
• Blier v. Inhabitants of Town of Fort Kent
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-02-19· cited 18×
• State v. Crommett
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1955-09-07· cited 16×
• In Re Bangor Hydro-Electric Company
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-01-25· cited 15×
• Swenson v. Cahoon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1933-09-12· cited 15×
• Emple Knitting Mills v. City of Bangor
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1959-06-26· cited 13×
• Watts v. City of Winfield
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1917-10-06· cited 12×
• National Newark & Essex Bank v. Hart
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-09-06· cited 11×
• Kampstra v. Salem Heights Water District
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1964-04-22· cited 8×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1968-10-30· cited 8×
• Smith v. Speers
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1969-05-22· cited 7×