State v. Pennington’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Blake v. Schwartz (2002), Fisher v. Kaufman (2001)
33 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 Daou v. Harris · State v. Superior Court of Pima County · 22 Ariz. App. 379 - Altamirano v. Industrial Commission · State v. Kasold · 14 Ariz. App. 409 - Coover v. Industrial Commission
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is presumed the legislature is aware of existing case law when it passes a statute, and that it is aware of court decisions interpreting the language of the statute; and when it retains the language upon which those decisions are based, it approves the interpretations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Soza v. Marner · Blake v. Schwartz“presum[e] the legislature is aware of existing case law when it passes a statute,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chandler
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.