Firestone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Hobbs v. State (2011), State v. Catanio (2004)
40 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 Strickland v. Washington · Kirksey v. State · City Council of Reno v. Reno Newspapers, Inc. · Talancon v. State · Anderson v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident on a highway or on premises to which the public has access resulting in bodily injury to or the death of a person shall immediately stop his vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close thereto as possible, and shall forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the scene of the accident until he has fulfilled the requirements of NRS 484.223. 3. A person failing to comply with the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a category B felony ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dettloff v. State“A court should normally presume that a legislature did not intend multiple punishments for the same offense absent a clear expression of legislative intent to the contrary. Criminal statutes must be strictly construed and resolved in favor of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Criminal statutes must be strictly construed and resolved in favor of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.