State v. Pledger’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Feola · Zamora v. Reinstein · State v. Girdler · State v. Riggs · State Ex Rel. Morrison v. Anway
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.
“When interpreting a statute, we look to the plain language of the statute as the best indicator of the drafter's intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chandler
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.