State v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably State v. Palmer (1986), 53 Cal. 4th 1261 - People v. Cornett (2012)
2 federal appellate · 41 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. Lynch · Sorensen v. Meyer · State v. McGaha · State v. Stratton · State v. Ruzicka
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If “less than fourteen years of age” or “under fourteen years of age” had been used in [the statute], the protection of that statute would terminate when a child reached the 14th birthday. Because “less than” or “under” is absent from [the statute], while fourteen years of age or younger” appears in the statute, the compelled logical conclusion is that the statute’s protection extends into and throughout the year immediately following a person’s 14th birthday. When the plain and unambiguous language of [the statute] is considered, to the ordinary person “fourteen years of age” means that one has passed the 14th birthday but has not reached the 15th birthday. Thus, “fourteen years of age” is a temporal condition existing on the 14th birthday and continuing until the 15th birthday. Any other construction of “fourteen years of age” would be a perversion of popular parlance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. W.D. v. State““If ‘less than fourteen years of age’ or ‘under fourteen years of age’ had been used in § 28-320.01, the protection of that statute would terminate when a child reached the 14th birthday. Because ‘less than’ or ‘under’ is absent from § 28-320.01, while ‘fourteen years of age or younger’ appears in the statute, the compelled logical conclusion is that the statute’s protection extends into and throughout the year immediately following a person’s 14th birthday. When the plain and unambiguous language of § 28-320.01 is considered, ... to the ordinary person ‘fourteen years of age’ means that one has passed the 14th birthday but has not reached the 15th birthday.” 223 Neb. at 880 , 394 N.W.2d at 673-74 . (Citation omitted).”
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.