Halperin v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
March 2021
most recently cited
18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court not infrequently refers to later-enacted statutes for the purpose of demonstrating consistency (or inconsistency) in word usage over time as indirect evidence of what the enacting legislature most likely intended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he court may consider itself bound to follow a prior construction [of a statute] as a matter of stare decisis”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riley
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.