State v. Fairbanks’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Ruiz (2006), State v. Martinez (2006)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 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 v. Ogden · State v. Franks · State v. Handa · State v. Mares · Kirkpatrick v. Introspect Healthcare Corp.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the ambiguities are not addressed by the district court and there is no other relevant extrinsic evidence to resolve the ambiguity, the reviewing court may rely on the rules of construction, construing any ambiguity in favor of the defendant. Under these circumstances, contract interpretation is a legal issue that this Court reviews de novo.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[appellate courts] construe the terms of [a] plea agreement according to what [the d]efendant reasonably understood when he entered the plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A plea agreement is a unique form of contract whose terms must be interpreted, understood, and approved by the district court.”
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.