State v. Vainio’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Hawkins v. State (1985), State v. Letalien (2009)
26 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 United States v. Tucker · Burgett v. Texas · Lewis v. United States · Baldasar v. Illinois · Loper v. Beto
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of a penal statute cannot be extended or restricted beyond the plain meaning of the language chosen by the Legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Day“The Legislature could justifiably conclude there was a need for [more] gun control legislation in the case of convicted criminals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trower
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.