State v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Rodriquez (2008), State v. Ogden (1994)
68 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 United States v. DiFrancesco · State v. Linam · State v. Lujan · State v. Ellenberger · Goodloe v. Parratt
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Doubts about the construction of criminal statutes are resolved in favor of the rule of lenity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Russell · State v. Nevarez“B. Except as authorized by the Controlled Substances Act, it is unlawful for any person to intentionally traffic. Any person who violates this subsection is: (1) for the first offense, guilty of a second degree felony ...; and (2) for the second and subsequent offenses, guilty of a first degree felony....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lacey · State v. Lacey“`[t]here is sufficient doubt that the penalty for [conspiracy to traffic] should be escalated twice by what may be an unforeseen combination of ... criminal statutes, and in the absence of an explicit legislative authorization, we will construe the law strictly by refusing to give it such an expansive interpretation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lacey
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.