State v. Flores’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2018
1 district · 14 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 Fluor Corp. v. United States · Accent Store Design, Inc. v. Marathon House, Inc. · Doe v. Pataki · Brennan v. Kirby · Kaya v. Partington
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n carrying out our duty as the final arbiter on questions of statutory construction, `[i]t is well settled that when the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, this Court must interpret the statute literally and must give the words of the statute their plain and ordinary meanings.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]othing in this section shall be construed to abrogate any duty to register which exists or existed under the provisions of former § 11-37-16.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is our task `in interpreting a legislative enactment to determine and effectuate the Legislature's intent and to attribute to the enactment the meaning most consistent with its policies or obvious purposes.'”
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.