State v. Elmquist’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Varela (1999), Wilson v. Denver (1998)
4 district · 54 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 Swafford v. State · State v. Gonzales · State v. Orosco · State v. Williams · Farmington National Bank v. Basin Plastics, Inc.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute is ambiguous when it can be understood by reasonably well-informed persons in two or more different senses.”
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.