State v. Sinyard’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Rivera (2003), State v. Trujillo (2002)
58 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 Perea v. Baca · State v. Flores · State v. Greene · State Ex Rel. Clinton Realty Co. v. Scarborough · State v. Mabry
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first rule of statutory construction is that the courts must ascertain and give effect to the Legislature's intentions. Legislative intent is to be determined primarily from the language used in the statute as a whole. When the words used are free from ambiguity and doubt, no other means of interpretation should be resorted to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]ach section or part should be construed in connection with every other part or section so as to produce harmonious whole, ... and the court is to give effect to all provisions of a statute and to reconcile different provisions so as to make them consistent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Russell“appropriate to the offense and the offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tafoya
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.