State v. Van Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Goodwin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Penal statutes are construed with such strictness as to safeguard the rights of the defendant. ... [Pjenal statutes are not to be extended in their operation to persons, things, or acts not within their descriptive terms, or the fair and clear import of the language used. Nothing can be read into penal statutes by implication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“classic rule of construction of criminal statutes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.