State v. McVeigh’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
46 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Hughey v. United States · Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n Local Union No. 6 · Begier v. Internal Revenue Service · Lauer v. Zoning Commission
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In seeking to discern that intent we look to the words of the statute itself, to the legislative history and circumstances surrounding the enactment, to the legislative policy it was designed to implement add to its relationship to existing legislation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.