State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Payne v. Tennessee · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To overturn a decision settling one ... matter simply because we might believe that decision is no longer 'right' would inevitably reflect a willingness to reconsider others. And that willingness could itself threaten to substitute disruption, confusion, and uncertainty for necessary legal stability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The doctrine of stare decisis exists to protect the settled expectations of citizens because, '[e]lementary considerations of fairness dictate that individuals should have an opportunity to know what the law is and to conform their conduct accordingly.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We review issues of statutory construction de novo .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. State
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.