Goodwin v. Appleton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that intent is derived “from the language the [legislature] chose, either as defined by the [legislature] or as generally understood in the context of the matter under consideration[]”
• discussing the history of dissenters’ appraisal rights and recognizing lack of control or marketability discounts as shareholder-level, rather than entity-level, discounts
• “Only if the statute is ambiguous or otherwise frustrates a plain reading, do we resort to extrinsic aids such as the statute’s legislative history [and] the canons of construction[.]”
• “We presume that the General Assembly intended for the statute to be construed as a whole, for all of its parts to have meaning, and for it to harmonize with related statutes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).