State v. Traylor’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 397 So. 2d 874 - Kelly v. Mississippi Valley Gas Co. (1981), Gilmer v. State (2007)
39 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State ex rel. Greaves v. Henry · Richburger v. State · Bobo v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Yerger v. State ex rel. Brown · Roberts v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court has no right to add anything to or take anything from a statute, where the meaning of the statute is clear.... The law is that criminal statutes must be strictly construed. Such has been the law from time immemorial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court cannot create a law. Its sole power is to enforce the statute as written by the legislature. (100 Miss. at 558, 56 So. at 522, 523)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.