State v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1,092 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,107 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Fischer (2010), State v. Quarterman (Slip Opinion) (2014)
2 federal appellate · 1,092 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 United States v. Booker · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Blakely v. Washington · North Carolina v. Alford
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Foster · State v. Long · State v. Thompkins · State v. Barnes
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 1,107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of demonstrating plain error is on the party asserting it.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]ince Foster , trial courts no longer must navigate a series of criteria that dictate the sentence and ignore judicial discretion.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a lack of an objection in the trial court forfeits the Blakely issue for purposes of appeal when the sentencing occurred after the announcement of Blakely.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.