State v. SECOND JUDICIAL DIST. CT.(PULLIN)’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Lamb v. State (2011), Stromberg v. Second Judicial District Court (2009)
27 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Tellis v. State · State v. Sylva · Holiday v. United States · Sparkman 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he proper penalty is the penalty in effect at the time of the commission of the offense. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law in effect at the time of the commission of a crime governs the prosecution of criminal offenses”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that unless the Legislature clearly expresses its intent to apply a law retroactively, SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 3 01 1947A Nevada law requires the application of the law in effect at the time of the commission of a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.