State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1981
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implies very strongly that other acts on the same subject are not repealed.' In Black on Interpretation of Laws, 579, p. 351, it is said: `Repeals by implication are not favored. A statute will not be construed as repealing prior acts on the same subject (in the absence of express words to that effect) unless there is an irreconcilable repugnancy between them, or unless the new law is evidently intended to supersede all prior acts on the matter in hand and to comprise in itself the sole and complete system of legislation on that subject.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Epps“It is well said, 25 R. C. L., p. 912, `The common formula in a repealing clause that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Epps
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.