State v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2005
19 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. Truby · State v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company · State Ex Rel. Priest v. Coverdale
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is known from its associates. * * * The meaning of a word is or may be known from the accompanying words. * * * Under this rule general and specific words, capable of analogous meaning, when associated together, take color from each other, so that general words are restricted to a sense analogous to less general. * * * ’ ” State v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co., 227 La. 179 , 78 So.2d 825, 828 ; State v. Marsh, 233 La. 388 , 96 So.2d 643 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garner““The articles of this Code cannot be extended by analogy so as to create crimes not provided for herein; however, in order to promote justice and to effect the objects of the law, all of its provisions shall be given a genuine construction, according to the fair import of their words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garner“when the meaning of a statute appears doubtful it is well settled that we should seek the discovery of the legislative intent.”
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.