State v. Chappell’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on PDK Laboratories Inc. v. United States Drug Enforcement Administration · State v. Hairston · Bailey v. Republic Engineered Steels, Inc. · Niskanen v. Giant Eagle, Inc. · 152 Ohio St. 458 - Couts v. Rose
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the meaning of a statute is unambiguous and definite, it must be applied as written and no further interpretation is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Link“a criminal offense shall be construed as referring to existing or former laws of this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mullins“for violation of such prohibition or failure to meet such duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mullins
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.