Van Buskirk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Gaines v. State (2000), State v. Reidd (1987)
27 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 Santobello v. New York · Blackledge v. Allison · McGuire v. State · Gamble v. State · Kluttz v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the most meticulous standards of both promise and performance”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“additional information or changed circumstances,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the State enters a plea agreement, it “is held to ‘the most meticulous standards of both promise and performance.’ . . . The violation of the terms or ‘the spirit’ of the plea bargain requires reversal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Crockett
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.