State v. Marquez’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably State v. Wagstaff (1990), State v. McNair (1984)
54 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Filmon v. Florida · Whitten 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Dangerous or deadly assault by prisoner “A person, while in the custody of the department of corrections, a law enforcement agency or county or city jail, who commits an assault using or exhibiting a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or who intentionally or knowingly inflicts serious physical injury upon another person is guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be sentenced to life imprisonment and shall not be eligible for suspension or commutation of sentence, probation, parole or release on any other basis until such person has served not less than twenty-five years. A sentence imposed pursuant to this section shall be consecutive to any other sentence presently being served or imposed upon the defendant."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fears“A.R.S. § 13-1206 does not violate Article 3 by invading executive and judicial prerogatives; defining crimes and appropriate sanctions for those who commit them is a legislative function____ Neither does the statute violate Article 5, § 5, which in its very terms provides that the Governor’s power to grant commutation may be limited by the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Berger“fairly indicate[] the crime charged; state[] the essential elements of the alleged crime; and [be] sufficiently definite to apprise the defendant so that he can prepare his defense to the charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKaney v. Foreman
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.