State v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2005
4 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 Henderson v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance · State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Wiggins · McClaren v. G. S. Robins & Co. · Hammett v. Kansas City · State v. Getty
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question presented calls for the construction of a criminal statute. In doing so we are to determine the intent of the Legislature, but in making this determination ‘it is a fixed rule that such statutes must be strictly construed against the state and liberally in favor of the defendant, and that no one is to be made subject to criminal prosecution by implication.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones
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.