Singh v. Singh’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Peerless Insurance v. Gonzalez (1997), State v. Ingram (1996)
50 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 United States v. Bramblett · Roschen v. Ward · United States v. Raynor · Donnelley v. United States · Dart & Bogue Co. v. Slosberg
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that every criminal CT Page 17012 statute must be given the narrowest possible meaning in complete disregard of the purpose of the legislature. . . . [n]o rule of construction . . . requires that a penal statute be strained and distorted in order to exclude conduct clearly intended to be within its scope — nor does any rule require that the act be given the `narrowest meaning.' It is sufficient if the words are given their fair meaning in accord with the evident intent of [the legislature]. . . . [s]trict construction does not mean that a statute must be read in isolation. In construing a statute, common sense must be used, and courts will assume that the legislature intended to accomplish a reasonable and rational result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Law suits are not determined by a consideration of philosophy in the abstract, but by the application of legal principles to the facts of a particular case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“disinclined to give any opinion, without any factual predicate . . . because to do so would amount to an advisory opinion.”
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.