State v. Fell’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Fragoso v. Fell (2005), Orfaly v. Tucson Symphony Society (2004)
73 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 Vo v. Superior Court · Pima County v. Heinfeld · State v. Pena · Piper v. Bear Medical Systems, Inc. · State v. Roscoe
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such as the statute's context, history, subject matter, effects and consequences, spirit, and purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In construing a statute, our primary goal is to discern and give effect to the legislature's intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Francis
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.