State v. Vallery’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably State v. Schriver (1988), Ricks v. District of Columbia (1968)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 71 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 State v. Truby
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * no one can be held accountable, or subjected to criminal prosecution, for any act done by him unless and until that act has been denounced as a crime and has been made punishable in a statute that defines the act sought to be denounced with such precision the person sought to be held accountable will know his conduct is such that it falls within the purview of the act intended to be prohibited.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Murff · State v. Viator““Courts can do no more than interpret and construe statutes. They cannot, under the guise of interpretation, assume legislative functions. * * *””
2 later decisions 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.