State v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. West (1993), State v. Dann (2009)
69 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 Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Ogilvie · Bibby v. United States · State v. Zaragoza · State v. Mincey · State v. Pulliam
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person convicted of committing any felony offense, which felony offense is committed while the person is released on bail or on his own recognizance on a separate felony offense, shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment two years longer than would otherwise be imposed for the felony offense committed while released on bond or on his own recognizance. The additional sentence imposed under this subsection is in addition to any enhanced punishment that may be applicable under any of the other subsections of this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson“a subsequent legislative change in the language of a particular statute ... is a strong indication of the Legislature's original intent [citations omitted].... [Because] [t]his modification occurred shortly after the original version of [the statute] was enacted ... [it] is to us a clarification in order to reflect the intent of the original enactment ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“words with common meaning need not be defined where the ordinary definition of the word and the statutory definition of the word are essentially the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Borbon
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.