State v. Valentin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Tischio (1987), State v. Churchdale Leasing, Inc. (1989)
135 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. Mendenhall · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · State v. Butler · Town Tobacconist v. Kimmelman
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here more than one reasonable interpretation may be made, or where the language is ambiguous and the ambiguity is not manufactured by the defendant the construction must be drawn against the state.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`[n]o one shall be punished for a crime unless both that crime and its punishment are clearly set forth in positive laws.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“doctrine that penal statutes must be strictly construed.”
3 later decisions 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.