State v. Apperson

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that \liberal construction does not permit a court to rewrite the statute\
• observing that “liberal construction does not permit a court to rewrite the statute”
• “We do not read words or phrases in isolation, but in the context of the entire statutory scheme.”
• “[I]t frustrates rather than effectuates legislative intent simplistically to assume that whatever furthers the statute’s primary objective must be the law.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).