State v. Sung’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2015
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Lanier · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · State v. Ogden · Santillanes v. State · State v. Meadors
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In writing and construing the criminal law, both our state legislature and this Court owe the people of this state a duty of clarity. We cannot ask our citizens ... to guess at the meaning of a criminal statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chavez
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.