State v. Bybee’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Santillanes v. State (1993), State v. Hodge (1994)
48 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 Balistrieri v. United States · United States v. Scharton · Pierce v. United States · State Ex Rel. Klineline v. Blackhurst · State v. Keith
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] criminal statute may not be made applicable beyond its intended scope, and it is a fundamental rule that crimes must be defined with appropriate definiteness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leiding · State v. Chavez“[d]oubts about the construction of criminal statutes are resolved in favor of the rule of lenity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Russell · State v. Riddall“we do not believe the legislature intended the burglary statute to protect space within any thing constructed, no matter how small, absent specific language in the statute evincing intent to include such structure within the proscription of the statute. Thus, considering Section 30-16-3(B) in light of the rule that criminal statutes are construed strictly against the state, we do not interpret the language “or other structure” to apply to soft drink vending machines located outside a dwelling house or other structure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.