State v. Byers’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County (2004), Teschendorf v. State Farm Ins. Companies (2006)
31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rule, are tools, not rules. They are all designed to reach one fundamental goal: discerning legislative intent. Ignoring relevant evidence on legislative intent in the name of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peters“William Jefferson Clinton. ¶ 39. I write only to emphasize that canons .of statutory construction, such as the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peters“That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peters
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.