In Re Wallace W.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Degren v. State (1999), State v. Pagano (1996)
2 federal appellate · 72 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 Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore · Williams v. State · Morris v. Prince George's County · United States v. Streidel · Management Personnel Services, Inc. v. Sandefur
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of ejusdem generis applies when the following conditions exist: (1) the statute contains an enumeration by specific words; (2) the members of the enumeration suggest a class; (3) the class is not exhausted by the enumeration; (4) a general reference supplementing the enumeration, usually following it; and (5) there is not clearly manifested an intent that the general term be given a broader meaning than the doctrine requires.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[U]nder the established rule of ejusdem generis [,] where general words in a statute follow the designation of particular things or classes of subjects or persons, the general words 'will usually be construed to include only those things or persons of the same class or general nature as those specifically mentioned. This rule is based on the supposition that if the Legislature had intended the general words to be considered in an unrestricted sense, it would not have enumerated the particular things.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Haile v. State · Degren v. State“is based on 'the supposition that if the legislature had intended the general words to be construed in an unrestricted sense, it would not have enumerated the specific things.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.