State v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably Santillanes v. State (1993), State v. Lucero (1975)
49 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. Lucas · Martinez v. Research Park, Inc. · State v. Prince · State v. Thompson · 31 Cal. 2d 43 - In Re Bramble
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A statute is sustainable as a proper exercise of that [police] power only if the enactment is reasonably necessary to prevent manifest or anticipated evil, or is reasonably necessary to preserve the public health, safety, morals, or general welfare. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o conceivable public purpose can be served by the prosecution and punishment of those who set fires for innocent and beneficial purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Durant
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.