State v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
December 2015
most recently cited
3 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Patterson v. New York · State v. Ball · State v. Smagula · White v. Lee · State v. Bell
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All words of a statute are to be given effect, and the legislature is presumed not to use words that are superfluous or redundant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]ith the purpose to annoy or alarm another, having been previously notified that the recipient does not desire further communication, communicates with such person, when the communication is not for a lawful purpose or constitutionally protected.”
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.