Martin v. McKean

How courts have described this case

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

• “We presume that the legislature ‘understands the legal import of the words it uses and does not use language idly, but rather intends that meaning should be given to each word.’”
• “[W]e read the statutory design as a whole, giving consistent, harmonious, and sensible effect to all of its parts. ... Often [one of] the best guides to legislative intent [is] the context in which the statutory provisions appear .... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).