State v. Sosa’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably State v. Barber (2004), Allsup's Convenience Stores, Inc. v. North River Insurance (1998)
94 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 Blockburger v. United States · Wood v. Georgia · Swafford v. State · State v. Apodaca · Santillanes 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that each statute may be violated independent of the other will also lend support to the imposition of sentences for each offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the seriousness of the offense; (2) whether the ... offense was committed in an aggressive, violent, premeditated or willful manner; (3) whether a firearm was used to commit the ... offense; (4) whether the ... offense was against persons or against property, greater weight being given to offenses against persons, especially if personal injury resulted; (5) the maturity of the child as determined by consideration of the child's home, environmental situation, social and emotional health, pattern of living, brain development, trauma history, and disability; (6) the record and previous history of the child; (7) the prospects for adequate protection of the public and the likelihood of reasonable rehabilitation of the child by the use of procedures, services, and facilities currently available; and (8) any other relevant factor, provided that factor is stated on the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n abuse of discretion [occurs] when the lower court’s decision is clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and circumstances of the case. [W]e will not find an abuse of discretion unless we can characterize [the district court’s determination] as clearly untenable or not justified by reason. The moving party bears the burden of establishing an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez
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.