Topic: a specific statute controls over a general statute. · Go Syfert
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7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 22 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State Department of Taxation v. Masco Builder Cabinet Group.

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1 State Department of Taxation v. Masco Builder Cabinet Group Anchor
nev · 2013
green “a specific statute controls over a general statute.” 5
2 Attorney General v. Nevada Tax Comm'n
nev · 2008
green “a statute is ambiguous when it is capable of being understood in two or more senses by reasonably informed persons or it does not otherwise speak to the issue before the court.” 4
3 Laird v. State of Nevada Public Employees Retirement Board
nev · 1982
green “when statutes are in conflict, the one more recent in time controls over the provisions of an earlier enactment.” 3
4 John Munic Enterprises, Inc. v. Laos
arizctapp · 2014
green “a person entitled to recover contribution may recover no more than the amount paid to the plaintiff in excess of the person's comparative share of responsibility.” 3
5 DeBenedetto v. CLD Consulting Engineers, Inc.
nh · 2006
green “a rule of law limiting a jury or court to consideration of the fault of only the parties to an action would directly undermine the new hampshire legislature's decision to assign only several liability. . . .” 3
6 Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers v. Nevada Self-Insurers Ass'n
nev · 2010
green “we presume that the legislature enacted the statute with full knowledge of existing statutes relating to the same subject.” 2
7 Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers v. Nevada Self-Insurers Ass'n
nev · 2010
green “we presume that the legislature enacts a new statute with full knowledge of existing statutes relating to the same subject” 2

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