State v. DeGraff’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Bernal (2006), State v. Frazier (2007)
164 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Olano · North Carolina v. Pearce · Griffin v. California · Doyle v. Ohio
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n our consideration of whether conduct is unitary, we have looked for an identifiable point at which one of the charged crimes had been completed and the other not yet committed”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gwynne · State v. Comitz“Such indicia include the timing, location, and sequencing of the acts, the existence of an intervening event, the defendant's intent as evidenced by his conduct and utterances, and the number of victims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“we determine whether a defendant's acts are separated by sufficient `indicia of distinctness' to justify multiple punishments under the same statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torres · State v. Cook
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.