State v. Renfro’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2007
2 district · 20 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 Roe v. Wade · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Trop v. Dulles · Stanley v. Georgia · Weems 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do not find that the legislature’s differing treatment of alcohol and marijuana is so arbitrary and irrational as to violate equal 'protection. Perhaps the legislature has chosen to exempt alcohol from proscription because it has found, in the wake of the disastrous “noble experiment” of Prohibition, that it is largely impossible to protect society from alcohol. The fact that the legislature may find itself unable to protect society from one evil (alcohol) does not compel the conclusion that it is arbitrary and irrational for the legislature to attempt to protect against another substance (marijuana) which the legislature rationally deems harmful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mallan · State v. Hatori“(1) A person commits the offense of promoting a detrimental drug in the first degree if he [or she] knowingly and unlawfully: [[Image here]] (e) Possesses one or more preparations ... or substances of an aggregate weight of 2.2 pounds or more, containing any marijuana[.] [[Image here]] (2) Promoting a detrimental drug in the first degree is a class C felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bachman · State v. Hatori
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.