State v. Burke

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that courts should not construe a statute to reach an absurd result
• when interpreting a legislative enactment, the court must attribute to the enactment a meaning most consistent with the Legislature's policies or obvious purposes
• in interpreting legislative enactment, the Court must effectuate the Legislature's intent and attribute a meaning most consistent with its policies and purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Tanner v. Town Council of Town of East Greenwich
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-07-18· cited 100×
• Keystone Elevator Co. v. Johnson & Wales University
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-04-15· cited 52×
• Jeff Anthony Properties v. Zoning Board of Review of the Town of North Providence
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-06-24· cited 33×
• Jennifer Swain v. Estate of Shelley A. Tyre by and through James H. Reilly as Administrator d.b.n, c.t.a.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2012-12-13· cited 29×
• State v. Snell
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-02-27· cited 24×
• State v. Christodal
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2008-05-07· cited 24×
• State v. Goncalves
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2008-02-21· cited 20×
• State v. Marsich
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2010-12-13· cited 18×
• State v. Flori
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-02-06· cited 13×
• State v. LaRoche
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-10-28· cited 13×
• State v. Daniel Tejeda
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2017-11-08· cited 12×
• State v. Gilbert
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-12-07· cited 8×
• State v. Burke
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-06-30· cited 8×
• State v. Caprio
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-04-01· cited 6×
• Burke v. Rhode Island
  Supreme Court· 2003-10-06
• Pfeiffer v. Moreau
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2010-10-18
• Pine v. State
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2010-09-03
• Baker v. R.I. Dept. of Business Regulation, Pc
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2007-04-05
• A.F. Homes v. Ward
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2010-03-08
• English v. State
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2010-09-03

Cites

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

• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Alabama v. Shelton
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-20· cited 330×
• Accent Store Design, Inc. v. Marathon House, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-04-24· cited 300×
• United States v. Hilario Mendoza-Salgado, United States of America v. Ramon Edwardo Garcia
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-05-15· cited 219×
• Brennan v. Kirby
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-07-28· cited 159×
• United States v. D. Spencer Grow and C. Oran Mensik
  Fourth Circuit· 1968-03-18· cited 115×
• Webster v. Perrotta
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-06-27· cited 107×
• State v. DiCicco
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1998-01-27· cited 84×
• State v. Flores
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1998-06-18· cited 45×
• State v. Conley
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-10-16· cited 44×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-02-08· cited 39×
• Oliveira v. Lombardi
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-04-03· cited 34×
• State v. Benak
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2001-01-23· cited 34×
• Town of North Kingstown v. Albert
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-03-06· cited 31×
• Solas v. Emergency Hiring Council
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-06-14· cited 28×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-04-04· cited 27×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-01-12· cited 25×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-12-24· cited 22×
• Traylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-12-17· cited 20×
• State v. Moran
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-07-25· cited 18×