Waddell v. Briggs

How courts have described this case

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

• examining the statutes of other jurisdictions to discern the purpose of a Maine statute proscribing heart balm suits due to “the absence of legislative history or preambulary provision in the enactment of [Maine’s statute]”
• a court must look to the end sought in the enactment of a statute and approve a construction which will not nullify its purpose
• a court must look to the end sought in the enactment of a statute and approve a construction which will not nullify its purpose

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Askew v. Askew
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-02-17· cited 60×
• Sawyer v. Bailey
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1980-04-15· cited 55×
• Rubin v. Matthews International Corp.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1986-01-09· cited 51×
• Maine Beer & Wine Wholesalers Ass'n v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1993-01-05· cited 23×
• Buck v. Town of Yarmouth
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-06-21· cited 22×
• Benedix v. Secretary of State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-02-21· cited 5×
• Yang v. Lee
  D. Maryland· 2001-08-24· cited 5×
• Kayla Doherty v. Merck & Co., Inc.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2017-01-26· cited 4×
• Davey v. Lincoln County
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1986-02-28· cited 3×
• State of Maine v. Billy L. Beaulieu
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2025-01-14· cited 3×
• Dana v. Secretary of State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1993-07-30· cited 2×
• Roberta, Inc. v. Inhabitants of Town of Southwest Harbor
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1982-09-08· cited 1×
• Wallace v. Hawk
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-12-18

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Agis v. Howard Johnson Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-10-01· cited 535×
• Pavlicic v. Vogtsberger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-11-18· cited 38×
• Thibault v. Lalumiere
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-03-28· cited 31×
• Stanard v. Bolin
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-06-02· cited 26×
• Langley v. Schumacker
  California Supreme Court· 1956-06-04· cited 22×
• De Cicco v. Barker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-06-26· cited 22×
• Andie v. Kaplan
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1942-01-19· cited 20×
• Sulkowski v. Szewczyk
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1938-06-28· cited 18×
• Gikas v. Nicholis
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1950-03-07· cited 15×
• Broyhill v. Norton
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1903-05-27· cited 14×
• Maine Merchants Association, Inc. v. Campbell
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-02-16· cited 7×
• Goodwin v. Luck
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1937-10-02· cited 4×
• Easley v. Neal
  New York Supreme Court· 1952-02-20· cited 4×
• Bukowski v. Kuznia
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1922-01-27· cited 4×
• Gerber v. Shwartz
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1925-03-03· cited 2×
• Drobnich v. Bach
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1924-05-02· cited 2×