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State v. Waite’s Empirical Analysis

1942

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
10
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably State v. Brown (1957), State v. Hill (1962)

2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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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 State v. Terry · State v. Tower · State v. Blair · State v. Haining · State v. Brown

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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A rule of strict construction is to be applied to criminal statutes and courts should not extend them to embrace acts or conduct not clearly included within the prohibitions of the statute.””
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 93 Okla. Crim. 228 - State v. Sandfer · State v. Brown
  2. ““The term ‘personal property’ as used in this act shall be construed to mean goods, chattels, effects, evidences of right in action, and all written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, or any right or title to property, real or personal, shall be created, acknowledged, assigned, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged, or diminished.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Crosby
  3. “devised and designed for the purpose of playing any game of chance for money or property, * * *.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. One "Jack and Jill" Pinball

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.