State v. Mares’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Gutierrez (2011), State v. Herbstman (1998)
69 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 Mark V, Inc. v. Mellekas · C.R. Anthony Co. v. Loretto Mall Partners · United States v. Hand · Sneed v. Cox · State Ex Rel. Duran v. Anaya
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should turn to rules of construction only after it has used all other methods of resolving the ambiguity, and plea agreements should be construed in favor of the non-drafting party only when an ambiguity cannot be resolved by a review of the relevant direct and extrinsic evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] plea agreement is a unique form of contract the terms of which must be interpreted, understood, and approved by the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montano
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.