State v. Vega’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2009
1 federal appellate · 11 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. Galaviz · State v. Kaiser · State v. Cardona · State v. Vega · State v. Money
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term “consecutive” is inappropriate when referring to a sentence enhancement for use of a firearm. It may connote, inaccurately, the existence of two separate sentences. It is well established in our ease law that, regardless of the terminology employed, a firearm enhancement is part of a single sentence.... “[T]he base sentence and the enhancement should be construed as one continuous sentence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ewell“if and when [Langley] can show that he has been harmed or that harm is imminent from such an error, he may seek appropriate relief through a mandamus or [a state] habeas corpus action brought directly against the Board [of Corrections].”
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.