Aikens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2020
19 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 Williams v. State · Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A. v. Richard's Honda Yamaha · Ray & Sons Masonry Contractors, Inc. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Smith v. Smith · National Front Page, LLC v. State Ex Rel. Pryor
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.
“We construe rules using the same means, including canons of construction, that are used to interpret statutes. The first rule in considering the meaning and effect of a statute or rule is to construe it just as it reads, giving the words their ordinary and usually accepted meaning in common language. When the language is plain and unambiguous, there is no need to resort to rules of statutory construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Solis v. State
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.