State v. Megargel’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Evers (2003), In re the Registrant, C.A. (1996)
67 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 Craig v. Harney · State v. Roth · State v. Butler · State v. Maguire · 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts should consider a defendant's role in the incident to determine the need to deter him from further crimes and the corresponding need to protect the public from him. Was the defendant the mastermind, a loyal follower, an accomplice whose shared intent is problematic, or an individual who is mentally incapable of forming the necessary criminal intent? [ Ibid. ]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In cases of convictions for crimes of the first or second degree where the court is clearly convinced that the mitigating factors substantially outweigh the aggravating factors and where the interest of justice demands, the court may sentence the defendant to a term appropriate to a crime of one degree lower than that of the crime for which he was convicted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he decision to downgrade a defendant's sentence `in the interest of justice' should be limited to those circumstances in which defendant can provide `compelling' reasons for the downgrade.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.