State v. Bigbee’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Smith v. State (1996), Baird v. State (1992)
61 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 Roth v. United States · Uhlir v. Ritz · Simmons v. State · Short v. State · Cheaney v. State
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A penal statute must be strictly construed against the State, but a statute should not be overly narrowed so as to exclude cases fairly covered by it and should be interpreted so as to give efficient operation to the expressed intent of the legislature.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barger v. State · Purcell v. State“one who executes bonds and receives or is promised money or other things of value”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.