State v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1992
17 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`When Congress leaves to the Judiciary the task of imputing to Congress an undeclared will, the ambiguity should be resolved in favor of lenity. And this is not out of any sentimental consideration, or for want of sympathy with the purpose of Congress in proscribing evil or antisocial conduct. It may fairly be said to be a presupposition of our law to resolve doubts in the enforcement of a penal code against the imposition of a harsher punishment. * * * ' 349 U.S. at 83-84 , 75 S.Ct. at 622 ." 264 Or. at 393 , 505 P.2d at 912 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we suspect it would have chosen not to impose multiple punishments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cloutier
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.