Waldroup v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Vines v. State (1998), Fleming v. State (1999)
25 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 Viereck v. United States · Carter v. Johnson · Citizens Bank v. Mullis · McArthur v. Phillips · Wylly v. Screven
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule which requires a strict construction of criminal statutes does not mean that the natural, reasonable, and . . . accepted meanings of the words, are not to be given effect, or that they shall be disregarded, even though in order to do so it be necessary to treat the rational language employed as meaningless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glover v. State
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.