State v. Prevo’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Gaylord (1995), State v. Murray (1980)
39 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · United States v. Wurzbach · 35 Cal. 2d 49 - Lorenson v. Superior Court · Chesapeake Ry Co v. Bryant · State Ex Rel. Dussault v. Kilburn
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a] statute will not be held unconstitutional by reason of uncertainty if any sensible construction embracing the legislative purpose may be given it. Mere difficulty in ascertaining its meaning, or the fact that it is susceptible to interpretation will not render it nugatory.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gaylord · State v. Taylor“Even the rule that penal statutes are to be strictly construed does not permit a court to ignore the legislative intent, nor does it require the rejection of that sense of the words used which best harmonizes with the design of the statute or the end in view.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“aids in ascertaining and giving effect to the legislative intent, [and] these rules cannot be used in contravention of the purpose of the legislature by confining the operation of the statute within narrower limits than intended.”
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.