State v. Kraus’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably State v. McDonald (1983), Bartley v. Special School District of St. Louis County (1983)
55 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 Ex Rel. Brown v. Board of Education of St. Louis · In Re Tompkins'estate · State v. Paul · State Ex Rel. Dravo Corporation v. Spradling · Edwards v. St. Louis County
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary rule of statutory construction is to ascertain the intent of the lawmakers from the language used, to give effect to that intent if possible, and to consider words used in the statute in their plain and ordinary meaning. The purpose and object of the statute must always be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Franklin“order to expunge from all official records . . .”
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.