Yellowbird v. North Dakota Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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

• “‘An’ is an indefinite article, which is equivalent to ‘one’ or ‘any’; but is seldom used to denote plurality” (cleaned up)
• “In construing a statute, definite article ‘the’ particularizes the subject which it precedes and is a word of limitation as opposed to indefinite or generalizing force of ‘a’ or ‘an’” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).