State v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Jaffe v. State Department of Health (1949), State v. Skakel (2006)
65 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 v. Carey · State v. Scott · State v. Enanno · State v. Williams · State v. Teahan
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Being a penal statute, [it] must be strictly construed, in . . . that it cannot be enlarged by construction to cover a case not within its literal terms . . . nor . . . for the purpose of more effectually suppressing the mischief to which it is directed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cooper“Courts do not approach the construction of a penal statute creating a new offense against the state with the hostile purpose of crippling a legislative intent plainly expressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pasqualoni
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.