State v. Brule’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Coffin (1999), State v. Santillanes (2001)
46 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Miller v. Fenton · United States v. Goodwin · Voinovich v. Quilter
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while all forms of prosecutorial misconduct may impinge to some degree on a defendant's right to due process, prosecutorial vindictiveness constitutes a particularly severe, prejudicial, and repugnant due process violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Korum“justify depriving a defendant of his or her due process right to be free from vindictive prosecution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Rendleman
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.