State v. Lutters’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Cogan v. Chase Manhattan Auto Financial Corp. (2005), Teresa T. v. Ragaglia (2005)
65 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 United States v. Bass · Albernaz v. United States · Moskal v. United States · Dunn v. United States · Home Insurance v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he meaning of a statute shall, in the first instance, be ascertained from the text of the statute itself and its relationship to other statutes. If, after examining such text and considering such relationship, the meaning of such text is plain and unambiguous and does not yield absurd or unworkable results, extratextual evidence of the meaning of the statute shall not be considered. Public Acts 2003, No. 03-154, § 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“courts do not apply the rule of lenity unless a reasonable doubt persists about a statute's intended scope even after resort to the language and structure , legislative history , and motivating policies of the statute .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kelley“[t]he touchstone of [the] rule of lenity is statutory ambiguity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kelley
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.