Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2009
15 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. Simmons · Giles v. State · Tally v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have consistently followed the universal rule that “criminal statutes are to be strictly construed, and no case is to be brought by construction within a statute unless it is completely within its words . . . [citation omitted].” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Austin v. State
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.