State v. Maestas’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Olsen v. Eagle Mountain City (2011), Miller v. Weaver (2003)
39 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 Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Colorado v. Connelly · Monge v. California
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute is passed as a whole and not in parts or sections and is animated by one general purpose and intent. Consequently, each part or section should be construed in connection with every other part or section so as to produce a harmonious whole.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“the true intent and purpose of the Legislature.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The plain language of the statute provides us with the road map to the statute's meaning, helping to clarify the intent and purpose behind its enactment.”
6 later decisions 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.