State v. Laws’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably State v. Sands (1978), State v. Gerald (1988)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 70 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · United States v. Jackson · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Scalza v. United States · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That organic document purposefully modernized and greatly strengthened our judicial system. In the process it vested this Court with wide judicial power, perhaps more sweeping than that granted to any other court of last resort, and all to the end that it would be in a fail position to ensure that justice is truly and equally done. [Id. at 500, 242 A.2d 333 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Loftin“whenever the interests of justice so require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.