Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Lockshin v. Semsker (2010), Cox v. State (2011)
64 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 · State v. Albrecht · Williams v. State · State v. Smith · Bureau of Mines v. George's Creek Coal and Land Co.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]ecodification of statutes is presumed to be for the purpose of clarity rather than change of meaning and, thus, even a change in the phraseology of a statute by a codification will not ordinarily modify the law unless the change is so radical and material that the intention of the Legislature to modify the law appears unmistakably from the language of the code.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Legislature is presumed to be aware of our prior holdings when it enacts new legislation and, where it does not express a clear intention to abrogate the holdings of those decisions, to have acquiesced in those holdings.” Id. at 72 , 935 A.2d 421 (internal citations omitted) Thus,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“settled that the purpose of the plain meaning rule is to ascertain and carry out the real legislative intent.”
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.