Duggar v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1993
4 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 Christie v. State of Florida
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term felony, whenever it may occur in this Constitution or in the laws of the State, shall be construed to mean any criminal offense punishable with death or imprisonment in the State Penitentiary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the absence of legislative language in the statutes ... indicating an indication to give the term felony a broader or different meaning... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not a limitation on legislative power, nor ... a prohibition”
1 later decision 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.