State v. Chorney’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2024
14 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 Jackson v. Indiana · Swafford v. State · State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · State v. Rowell · State v. Linam
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant shall be detained by the department of health in a secure, locked facility; [and] (2) the defendant shall not be released from that secure facility except pursuant to an order of the district court which committed him or upon expiration of the period of time equal to the maximum sentence to which the defendant would have been subject had the defendant been convicted in a criminal proceeding ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quintana“it is reasonable to conclude that the 'maximum sentence' ... can consist ... of basic sentences for the crimes that trigger commitment, and any enhancements of those basic sentences that are expressly based on inherently dangerous criminal conduct as set out in Section 31-9-1.5(D) or defined in Section 31-9-1.2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quintana“whether the Legislature intended the habitual offender enhancement to be employed even where its application bears no reasonable relationship with dangerousness as defined in the [NMMIC].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quintana
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.