State v. Savastini’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
3
states following
August 1998
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bonanno v. Bonanno · Greenspan v. Slate · Lasasso v. Lasasso · Shepherd v. Ward · People v. Elbert
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutory scheme initiates two separate and distinct proceedings by a single complaint, one a civil proceeding and the other a criminal proceeding. ‘The criminal prosecution could go on without the award of money for support, and maintenance could be enforced without the criminal prosecution.’ "" *. The law’s primary and ultimate objective is to secure an adequate support order, the criminal charge supplying coercive pressure to that end. * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.