State v. Saari’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 188 W. Va. 85 - State v. Lewis (1992), State v. Evans (2018)
56 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 Solem v. Helm · Mistretta v. United States · Hill v. United States · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · United States v. DiFrancesco
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of the importance of the issue and because no further facts are necessary in order to consider the merits of the issues raised”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mandamus is appropriately invoked to confine an inferior court to a lawful exercise of its prescribed jurisdiction or to compel it to exercise its authority when it is its duty to do so ... but only exceptional circumstances amounting to a judicial "usurpation of power" will justify the invocation of this extraordinary remedy. We hold that the trial court stepped outside its authority by rejecting the applicable sentencing statute. Therefore, extraordinary relief in the nature of mandamus is an appropriate vehicle for review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[h]istorically, federal sentencing-the function of determining the scope and extent of punishment-never has been thought to be assigned by the [United States] [c]onstitution to the exclusive jurisdiction of any one of the three [b]ranches of [g]overnment. Congress, of course, has the power to fix the sentence for a federal crime ... and the scope of judicial discretion with respect to a sentence is subject to congressional control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans
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.