State v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Charles (2003), 65 Conn. App. 145 - State v. O'neil (2001)
2 district · 30 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 State v. Golding · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Yates v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the language used [within a statute] is doubtful in meaning, the true meaning may be ascertained by considering it in the light of all of its provisions . . . [as well as] its title.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The [vagueness] doctrine requires statutes to provide fair notice of the conduct to which they pertain and to establish minimum guidelines to govern law enforcement . . . [A] law forbidding or requiring conduct in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates due process of law . . .”
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.