State v. Saiz’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Belanger (2009), State v. Gallegos (2011)
62 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 Strickland v. Washington · Benton v. Maryland · State v. Gomez · Swafford v. State · State v. Rojo
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Distinctness may be established by determining whether the acts constituting the two offenses are sufficiently separated by time or space, looking to the quality and nature of the acts, the objects and results involved, and the defendant's mens rea and goals during each act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quick“[w]hile [the d]efendant performed dozens of individual physical acts in disposing of and altering a great number of evidentiary items, there were really only three conceptually separate crimes of tampering[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Urioste“we look to whether a defendant's acts are separated by `sufficient indicia of distinctness' to be considered non-unitary conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quick
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.