State v. Contreras’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2023
6 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 Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · State v. Attaway · State v. Rowell · State v. Ogden · State v. Hodge
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule of lenity applies when insurmountable ambiguity persists about the statute's scope after statutory interpretation or when we are unable to discern legislative intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Yazzie
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.