Knowles v. Holly

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the term “pursuant to” is a “restrictive term” (internal quotations omitted)
• refusing to invalidate write-in candidate’s votes that failed to mark an X by the write-in candidate and where the voting statute required voters to mark an X after their desired candidate except when the voter wrote in the name of the candidate
• “Reference statutes are those which refer to, and by reference adopt wholly or partially, preexisting statutes or which refer to other statutes and make them applicable to an existing subject of legislation.”
• Where there is a conflict between one statutory provision which deals with the subject in a general way and another which deals with the same subject in a specific manner, the specific statute will prevail.
• “[W]here there is a conflict between one statutory provision which deals with a subject in a general way and another which deals with the same subject in a specific manner, the latter will prevail.”
• “where there is a conflict between one statutory provision which deals with the subject in a general way and another which deals with the same subject in a specific manner,” the specific provision prevails.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).