State v. Racine’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Baldwin (1981), Committee to Save the Bishop's House, Inc. v. Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Inc. (1979)
2 district · 24 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 Louisville Co v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Donoghue v. Smith · State v. Arbeitman · State v. Mahoney · Swanton Village v. Town of Highgate
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the provisions of a statute are unfair or unjust, the remedy is by a change of the law itself, to be effected by the legislature, and not by judicial action in the guise of interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e must presume that all language is inserted in a statute advisedly.”
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.