Behrens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably State v. Burlison (1998), 73 Wash. 2d 616 - State v. Martin (1968)
27 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 Commercial National Bank of New Orleans v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Company · 119 Cal. App. 393 - People v. Rallo · Bainter v. Appel · People v. Ely · State ex rel. First National Bank v. Bartley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In construing a statute, the legislative intention is to be determined from a general consideration of the whole act with reference to the subject-matter to which it applies and the particular topic under which the language in question is found, and the intent as deduced from the whole will prevail over that of a particular part considered separately.’ 59 C. J. 993. “All parts of an act relating to the same subject should be considered together and not each by itself. “ ‘A word or phrase repeated in a statute will bear the same meaning throughout the statute, unless a different intention appears.’ 2 Lewis’ Sutherland, Statutory Construction (2d ed.) 758, sec. 399.””
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.