State v. Pinson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2021
7 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. Farrar · Francis v. Memorial General Hospital · State v. Shade · State v. Tellez · Lee v. Gray Cab Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of clear legislative directive, the buyer's conduct is therefore of a kind that is necessarily incidental to the principal crime--trafficking or sale--and the buyer has been excluded from prosecution for solicitation by legislative choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. SIMMS v. STATE“When an illegal drug sale is completed, there are two separate crimes committed, trafficking by the seller and possession by the purchaser. Each conduct is necessarily incident to the other crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Celestine
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.