State v. Golino’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Mahoney v. Lensink (1990), Lynn v. Haybuster Manufacturing, Inc. (1993)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Furman v. Georgia · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Toussie v. United States · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Train v. Colorado Public Interest Research Group, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that particular procedures for implementing the death penalty were held unconstitutional in Furman . . . and State v. Aillon . . . does not diminish the serious nature of an offense which, prior to those decisions, was punishable by death. We conclude that the legislature used the phrase `punishable by death' as a shorthand reference to a category of crimes which, because of their atrocious nature, would always be amenable to prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]lthough we acknowledge the fundamental principle that criminal statutes are to be strictly construed, it is equally fundamental that the rule of strict construction does not require an interpretation which frustrates an evident legislative intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“pre-1976 statute of limitations was not intended to bar a prosecution for murder, the crime with which the defendant is charged, even though in 1973 the defendant could not have been sentenced to death.”
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.