Haney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2025
22 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 Hernandez v. State · Calloway v. City of Reno · Charlie Brown Construction Co. v. City of Boulder City · Olson v. Richard · Allen v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although our ruling in this case will not benefit [appellant] directly because his sentence has expired, we nonetheless address the legal questions presented because they are capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“meaning to all words, phrases, and provisions of a statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“demands that ambiguities in criminal statutes be liberally interpreted in the accused's favor.... only applies when other statutory interpretation methods, including the plain language, legislative history, reason, and public policy, have failed to resolve a penal statute's SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 5 1947A ambiguity.”
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.