State v. McEuen’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1997
12 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 Dickerman v. Northern Trust Co. · Brown v. Greer · Donahue v. Babbitt · Jenkins v. Skelton · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Industrial Commission
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first and most important principle of statutory interpretation is that the intent of the Legislature is to be ascertained and followed. Deyo v. Arizona Grading & Construction Co., 18 Ariz. 149 , 157 Pac. 371 , L. R. A. 1916E 1257. The second, at least in Arizona, is that statutes shall be liberally construed to effect their objects and to promote justice. Section 3038, Rev. Code 1928. These principles of interpretation take precedence over all others, the remaining rules being merely ancillary and used to assist in the proper application of the two above set forth. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leeson v. Bartol
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.