State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Baldwin (1981), My Sister's Place v. City of Burlington (1981)
40 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 Audette v. Greer · Glabach v. Sardelli · Conn v. Town of Brattleboro · Emerson v. Hughes · State v. Racine
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]egislatures are not grammar schools; and, in this country at least, it is hardly reasonable to expect legislative acts to be drawn with strict grammatical or logical accuracy. . . . For that reason . . . the construction of a statute should be based on the whole statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there are two statutes upon the same subject that are in irreconcilable conflict, the statute which is the more recent legislative enactment will control, since it is the latest expression of the legislative will”
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.