State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably State v. Hicks (1986), State v. Vigil (1985)
32 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 Smith v. State · Tijerina v. Baker · 197 Cal. App. 2d 58 - In Re Klein · Valley Country Club, Inc. v. Mender · In re Walworth's Estate
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Penal statutes are of course to be strictly construed, but they are not to be subjected to any strained or unnatural construction in order to work exemptions from their penalties. ****** “But the rule does not exclude the application of common sense to the terms made use of in an act, in order to avoid an absurdity which the Legislature ought not to be presumed to have intended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gillihan“If the meaning [of a penal statute] is doubtful, the spirit or reason of the law prevails over the literal meaning to prevent injustice. . Accordingly, we may .apply common sense in order to avoid an absurd result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gilman
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.