Daggett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1821
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably State v. Smith (1984), State v. Shaw (1981)
2 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 United States v. Sheldon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as far back as 1821 this court held that penal statutes must be ... `expounded strictly against an offender, and liberally in his favor.... In extension of the letter of the law, nothing may be assumed by implication; nor may the mischief intended to be prevented or redressed, as against the offender, be regarded in its construction. It was the object of the principle, to establish a certain rule, by conformity to which mankind should be safe, and the discretion of the judge limited....' Daggett v. State, 4 Conn. 60, 63 [1821].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shaw
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.