State v. Sandberg’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
November 2022
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · State v. Schoonover · State v. Nunn · State v. McAdam
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No matter what the legislature may have really intended to do, if it did not in fact do it, under any reasonable interpretation of the language used, the defect is one which the legislature alone can correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Quested“The rule of lenity is a canon of statutory construction commonly applied in the criminal law context.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moler
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.