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Young v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
5
states following
May 2012
most recently cited

42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Clements v. State (1979), Fuller v. State (1952)

42 state decisions

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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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"The rule is, that penal laws are not by construction to be made to embrace cases not plainly within their meaning. . . .”
    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.