Tri County Light & Power Co. v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that an appellate court should decline to reach constitutional issues when they are not necessary to resolve the case
• explaining that an appellate court should decline to reach constitutional issues when they are not necessary to resolve the case
• doubting significance of legislative rejection of proposed provision to fully preempt field of regulating driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor
• courts \are duty-bound to give meaning to every word that the Legislature chose to include in a statute and to avoid rendering any language superfluous\
• courts “are duty-bound to give meaning to every word that the Legislature chose to include in a statute and to avoid rendering any language superfluous”
• in looking to discern what Legislature intended, courts look to plain meaning of the words used in the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).