State v. Marquez’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably State v. Melton (1983), 58 N.C. App. 330 - State v. Davis (1982)
35 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. Brookover · State v. Murphy · 6 Ariz. App. 36 - State v. Norgard · State v. McGuire · State v. Winans
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“C. The upper or lower term imposed ... may be imposed only if the circumstances alleged to be in aggravation or mitigation of the crime are found to be true by the trial judge upon any evidence or information introduced or submitted to the court prior to sentencing or any evidence previously heard by the judge at the trial, and factual findings and reasons in support of such findings are set forth on the record at the time of sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Henderson“The balancing of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances in determining a sentence is not based upon mere numbers of aggravating or mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Henderson
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.