State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably State v. Martin (1977), State v. Eden (1989)
50 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 v. Thompson · State v. Shop Rite Foods, Inc. · 146 Tex. Crim. 430 - Williams v. State · Howard v. State · People v. McCann
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Penal statutes must be strictly construed, and the definition of crimes therein contained is not to be broadened by intendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phillips
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.