State v. Fenner’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Summrell (1972), Smith v. Smith (1985)
69 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 Linkous v. Millner · State v. Mobley · State v. Eason · State v. Horner · State v. Taft
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the construction of statutes, the ejusdem generis rule is that where general words follow a designation of particular subjects or things, the meaning of the general words will ordinarily be presumed to be, and construed as, restricted by the particular designations and as including only things of the same kind, character and nature as those specifically enumerated.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t was incumbent upon the State to satisfy the jury from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant violated [the relevant misdemeanor statute] in the presence of the officer, or that the officer had reasonable grounds to believe the defendant had done so, in order to establish the authority and duty of the officer to make the arrest without a warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith““a place which in point of fact is public as distinguished from private, but not necessarily a place devoted solely to the uses of the public, a place that is visited by many persons and to which the neighboring public may have resort, a place which is accessible to the public and visited by many persons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fusco
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.