People v. Dolan’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1991
2 district · 17 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the intent of the legislature in enacting the statute; but that we must do by a consideration of the context, other sections or acts in pari materia, and by the application of the usual and well-known rules of construction of words or terms employed. Unless, therefore, the context forces a different construction, or other provisions exist affecting this matter which lead to such a result, we are inclined, and indeed we are bound, to give to these words that construction which is required by the rules * *”
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.