State v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably State v. Palmer (1986), State v. Burlison (1998)
28 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 Kinnan v. State · United States v. Speidel · Commonwealth v. Giles · State v. Ewert · State v. Hamilton
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is now settled beyond question, that there are no common law crimes in this state ...” . . . “No act is criminal unless the Legislature has in express terms declared it to be so, and no person can be punished for any act or omission which is not made penal by the plain import of written law.” ... “ ‘It is a fundamental principle of statutory construction that a penal statute is to be strictly construed.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Papillon
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.