State v. Sorenson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2013
16 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Shumaker v. New York & Pennsylvania Co. · State v. Foster · Kirkendall v. State · State v. McDaniels · Territory v. Palai
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it is true that under proper circumstances ‘or’ may mean 'and', the common usage of the word ‘or’ is as a disjunctive, indicating an alternative.”). . If the two clauses in HRS § 711-1106(l)(a) are synonyms, then the statute would include sur-plusage as to all or part of the second clause. In this case, the State pled a violation of the second part, but admits that it was surplusage. The State nevertheless asserts that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Codiamat.
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.