State v. Petrushansky’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Parker v. Junior Press Printing Service, Inc. (1972), Evans v. State (1985)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 64 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 Coblentz v. State · Maryland Theatrical Corp. v. Brennan · State v. Lassotovitch · Baltimore Retail Liquor Package Stores Ass'n v. Board of License Commissioners · Read Drug & Chemical Co. v. Claypoole
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not judicial legislation for courts to construe acts according to their obvious intent and meaning, considering the purpose of their enactment. That is one of the cardinal rules of construction of statutes. Real intent must prevail over literal intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.