Sharief v. State of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• “Georgia minimizes the [state code] annotations as non- binding and non-authoritative, but that description undersells their practical significance.”
• “All members of an ordered society are presumed either to know the law or, at least, to have acquainted themselves with those laws that are likely to affect their usual activities.”
• “All members of an ordered society are presumed either to know the law or, at least, to have acquainted themselves with those laws that are likely to affect their usual activities.”
• “[N]o one can own the law. Every citizen is presumed to know the law, and it needs no argument to show … that all should have free access to its contents.”
• “All members of an ordered society are presumed either to know the law or, at least, to have acquainted themselves with those laws that are likely to affect their usual activities.”
• “As every judge learns the hard way, comments in a dissenting opinion about legal principles and precedents are just that: comments in a dissenting opinion.” (cleaned up) (quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).