Sonson v. People

How courts have described this case

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

• we assume “that the [LJegislature’s intent is manifested through the ordinary meaning of the words chosen”
• the Supreme Court noted that it cannot add language into a statute which was not originally included in the statute ‘“under the guise of construing the statute”
• statutes should be construed sensibly to avoid interpretations which would yield absurd results

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Webster v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-03-05· cited 27×
• Edward v. GEC, LLC
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-08-01· cited 11×
• Lopez v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-02-07· cited 8×
• People v. Miller
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-07-08· cited 8×
• Percival v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-08-12· cited 5×
• Davis v. American Youth Soccer Organization
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-01-20· cited 5×
• Fawkes v. Sarauw
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-01-04· cited 3×
• One St. Peter, LLC v. Board of Land Use Appeals
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-08-28· cited 3×
• Velazquez v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-08-22· cited 2×
• Government Employees Retirement System v. Government of Virgin Islands Office of Attorney General
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-05-12· cited 1×
• Edward v. Genoa Inc.
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-01-23

Cites

36 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• District of Columbia v. Heller
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-26· cited 3,086×
• Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-09· cited 2,564×
• McDonald v. City of Chicago
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-28· cited 2,024×
• Maryland v. Pringle
  Supreme Court· 2003-12-15· cited 1,610×
• Wyoming v. Houghton
  Supreme Court· 1999-04-05· cited 987×
• Rewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 673×
• Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P. A. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-03-08· cited 350×
• United States v. Starnes
  Third Circuit· 2009-09-24· cited 219×
• United States v. Robert Joseph Carr, Jr., in No. 93-1376. United States of America v. Walter Orlando Cardona-Usquiano, in No. 93-1383
  Third Circuit· 1994-06-28· cited 207×
• United States v. Miller
  Third Circuit· 2008-06-02· cited 166×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Warren P. Berry. Appeal of Warren Berry. Appeal of Guillermo Brignoni
  Third Circuit· 1979-08-07· cited 152×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Henry D. Knight
  Third Circuit· 1993-04-08· cited 140×
• United States v. Paul Pavulak
  Third Circuit· 2012-11-21· cited 106×
• United States v. Jose Casiano, A/K/A Jose Rivera Jose Casiano, United States of America v. Alfredo Dejesus
  Third Circuit· 1997-05-07· cited 105×
• United States v. Marsha Dobson
  Third Circuit· 2005-08-16· cited 95×
• People v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1979-05-21· cited 67×
• Gilbert v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-10-06· cited 66×
• State v. Garza
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1999-04-16· cited 62×
• United States of America Government of the Virgin Islands v. Michael McKie at No. 96-7010, Jermaine Hall, at No. 96-7011, Guy M. Henry, at No. 96-7014
  Third Circuit· 1997-05-08· cited 58×
• United States v. Kellogg
  Third Circuit· 2007-12-07· cited 46×