State v. Finley’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
May 1997
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Federal Communications Commission v. American Broadcasting Co. · United States v. Williams · United States v. Halseth · State v. Hill · State v. Waite
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a fundamental rule that penal statutes must be strictly construed in favor of the persons sought to be subjected to their operations. . . . The rule of strict construction simply means that ordinary words are to be given their ordinary meaning. . . . Such a statute should not be so read as to add that which is not readily found therein or to read out what as a matter of ordinary English language is in it. . . .” (p. 300.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Floyd · State v. Mauldin
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.