Shell Oil Co. v. Iowa Department of Revenue

How courts have described this case

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

• A court need not look beyond the plain meaning of a statute. \But the meaning of words depends on their context.\
• A court need not look beyond the plain meaning of a statute. “But the meaning of words depends on their context.”
• “The fears and doubts of the opposition are no authoritative guide to the construction of legislation.”
• courts do \not usually accord much weight to the statements of a bill's opponents\
• courts do “not usually accord much weight to the statements of a bill’s opponents”
• meaning of words in statute depends on their context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).