State v. Bolton’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably State v. Foster (1999), State v. Smallwood (2007)
36 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 State v. Attaway · State Ex Rel. Delgado v. Stanley · Davis v. Traub · State v. Wyrostek · Pedigo v. Valley Mobile Homes, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the reason for dismissal is a lack of preparedness, which is the precise thing the six-month rule is supposed to guard against, then Lucero's analysis will apply and the case should be dismissed unless the prosecutor can offer a good reason for taking the action. Under any other circumstances, however, Delgado's analysis will apply and the case should be dismissed only when the prosecutor cannot demonstrate that the reason for dismissing was not a bad one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“On the other hand, a de novo standard is applied to determine the type of reasons that will justify a dismissal . . . or the type of analysis that should be utilized in these cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rayburns“what really motivated the prosecutor in dismissing the case and whether his actions were taken in subjective good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rayburns
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.