State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Langle v. Kurkul (1986), State v. Willis (1985)
36 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 Kent v. United States · Krupp v. Krupp · Murphy Motor Sales v. First Nat. Bank of St. Johnsbury · State v. Powers · Maurice Callahan & Sons, Inc. v. Armstrong
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor is it a legitimate function of this Court to expand a statute by implication, that is, by reading into it something which is not there, unless it is necessary in order to make it effective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“violate[s] the border lines drawn by the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Langle v. Kurkul
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.