State v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 269 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Jones (2007), Hudson v. Petrosurance, Inc. (2010)
6 federal appellate · 269 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 Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Rochin v. People of California · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Collins v. City of Harker Heights
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary goal of statutory construction is to ascertain and give effect to the legislature's intent in enacting the statute.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“contends that application of the statute in the particular context in which he has acted * * * [is] unconstitutional.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Austin · State v. Heiney“we are to presume that the state statute is constitutional, and the burden is on the person challenging the statute to prove otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morris · State v. Jackson
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.