State v. Cloutier’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
38
cited by 38 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 36 state decisions
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not tell us what words mean, only what words can mean, depending on their context and the particular manner in which they are used”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f possible, we give a statute with multiple parts a construction that will give effect to all of those parts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n the absence of evidence to the contrary, we ordinarily assume that the legislature uses terms in related statutes consistently.”
3 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.