State v. Kozlowski’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Cheshire Mortgage Service, Inc. v. Montes (1992), LeConche v. Elligers (1990)
160 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 Fahy v. Connecticut · Hayes v. Smith · State v. Roque · Seals v. Hickey · Laurel Park, Inc. v. Pac
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although penal statutes are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so as to disregard the context in which they exist or to frustrate the obvious interest of the legislature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to ascertain and give effect to the apparent intent of the legislature.”
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.