Larson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when state holds an easement because of condemnation, it holds the easement “in its entirety” and the unused portion is not subject to discharge under condemnation statutes
• stating that a statute is ambiguous if it “is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation”
• stating that “the grammatical rule of the last antecedent . . . instructs that a limiting phrase . . . ordinarily modifies only the noun or phrase that it immediately follows”
• \[A] limiting phrase ... ordinarily modifies only the noun or phrase that it immediately follows.\
• “[A] rule of liberal construction does not apply where ... a statute is unambiguous on its face.”
• “The written instrument creating the easement ... defines the scope and extent of the interest in land.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Fleck
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-02-15· cited 122×
• Christianson v. Henke
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-05-31· cited 99×
• Wong v. Minnesota Department of Human Services
  Eighth Circuit· 2016-04-19· cited 79×
• State of Minnesota v. Don Antoine Jones
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-07-02· cited 65×
• State v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-02-12· cited 65×
• State v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-02-27· cited 62×
• Carlton v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-07-18· cited 60×
• County of Dakota v. Cameron
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-11-27· cited 55×
• Rew ex rel. T.C.B. v. Bergstrom
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-04-30· cited 52×
• State of Minnesota, Respondent/Cross-Appellant v. Bonnie Ann Lindquist, Appellant/Cross-Respondent.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-08-19· cited 42×
• Alice Ann Staab v. Diocese of St. Cloud
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-09-10· cited 39×
• 500, LLC v. City of Minneapolis
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-09-25· cited 39×
• Poehler v. Cincinnati Insurance Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-07-19· cited 24×
• State of Minnesota v. Roger Benedict Schmid
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-02-25· cited 23×
• State of Minnesota v. Renee Anita Vasko
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-01-18· cited 22×
• In re the Estate of Butler
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-09-21· cited 22×
• Emerson v. Board of Independent School District 199
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-02-01· cited 22×
• Billion v. Commissioner of Revenue
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-03-20· cited 21×
• KSTP-TV v. Ramsey County
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-11-16· cited 19×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2019-01-09· cited 18×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barnhart v. Thomas
  Supreme Court· 2003-11-12· cited 1,983×
• Tuma v. Commissioner of Economic Security
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1986-05-09· cited 179×
• American Tower, L.P. v. City of Grant
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2001-12-06· cited 122×
• Meister v. Western National Mutual Insurance
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-01-17· cited 88×
• Reiter v. Kiffmeyer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-09-28· cited 35×
• Woodhall v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-09-13· cited 23×
• Hwy. 7 Embers, Inc. v. Northwestern National Bank
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-06-24· cited 17×
• LaBere v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1950-12-01· cited 13×
• Scherger v. Northern Natural Gas Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-03-05· cited 12×
• Cooperative Power Ass'n v. Aasand
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-01-11· cited 8×
• Larson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2009-12-22· cited 2×