State v. Ventling’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2024
10 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 Meyerink v. Northwestern Public Service Co. · Lewis v. Annie Creek Mining Co. · American Rim & Brake, Inc. v. Zoellner · Border States Paving, Inc. v. South Dakota State Department of Revenue · State v. Byrd
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is the general rule of statutory as well as grammatical construction that a modifying clause is confined to the last antecedent unless there is something in the subject matter or dominant purpose which requires a different interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“two possible modifying clauses to a single, subsequent term”
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.