State v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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

• “If a literal construction of the words of a statute be absurd, the act must be so construed as to avoid the absurdity. The court must restrain the words.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Knowles
  California Supreme Court· 1950-04-21· cited 425×
• Elizabeth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Howell
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1957-06-10· cited 100×
• Dixon v. Sharp
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-04-04· cited 47×
• State v. Tullo
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-12-02· cited 22×
• Stewart v. Nangle
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1958-06-04· cited 15×
• State v. Insabella
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1983-07-25· cited 14×
• Dezell v. King
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-12-19· cited 13×
• Cosmair, Inc. v. Director, New Jersey Division of Taxation
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-03-17· cited 11×
• State v. Orecchio
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1953-09-28· cited 9×
• Prikril v. Prikril
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1989-07-07· cited 3×
• US BANK, NA v. Hough
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2010-09-14· cited 2×
• Brown v. Rodes
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1961-08-11· cited 1×
• Di Bella v. Di Bella
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2004-04-13· cited 1×
• Catholic Community Services v. City of Newark
  New Jersey Tax Court· 2004-09-14· cited 1×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ex parte Burr
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia· 1823-04-15· cited 91×
• Coman v. State ex rel. Armstrong
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1837-01-14· cited 14×