State v. Eldredge’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Therrien, Jr. (2011), Vermont v. Brunner (2014)
37 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 Bearden v. Georgia · Tate v. Short · Fuller v. Oregon · Human Rights Commission v. LaBrie, Inc. · Our Lady of Ephesus House of Prayer, Inc. v. Town of Jamaica
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our goal is to give effect to the intent of the Legislature, and to do so we first look at the plain, ordinary meaning of the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if an order of forfeiture is entered against an owner under this section, the defendant or owner shall be required to repay all reasonable costs incurred by the custodial caregiver for caring for the animal, including veterinary expenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the plain language is clear and unambiguous, we enforce the statute according to its terms.”
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.