State v. Birdsall’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Williams (1985), State v. Barrett (1982)
46 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 Valdez v. State of Arizona · Wales v. Tax Commission · State Ex Rel. Berger v. Myers · State v. Allen
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court in its discretion may allow the allegation of a prior conviction at any time prior to trial, provided that when the allegation is filed, the state must make available to the defendant a copy of any material or information concerning the prior conviction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bernal · State v. Buchholz“During the time period set forth in [Rule 16.1], the filing of the allegation of prior conviction is solely within the discretion of the prosecutor. Thereafter, when an allegation of prior conviction is filed, the court may exercise its discretion as set forth in A.R.S. § 13-1649(C). State v. Birdsall, 116 Ariz. 112, 114 , 568 P.2d 419, 421 (1977).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bernal · State v. Jones“"The punishments prescribed by this section shall be substituted for those prescribed for a first offense if the previous conviction is charged in the indictment or information and admitted or found by the jury."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker · State v. Buchholz
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.