State v. Muschkat’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2014
1 district · 19 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Kolender v. Lawson · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given genuine construction, according to the fair import of their words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blanchard · State v. Hair“[w]hile we recognize our duty to interpret statutes in a manner consistent with our state and federal constitutions, we may only preserve a statute by a constitutional construction provided that the saving construction is a plausible one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the legislature fails to provide such minimal guidelines, a criminal statute may permit a standardless sweep [that could] allow [] policemen, prosecutors, and juries to pursue their personal predilection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fields v. State
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.