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← 168 Vt. 217 - State v. Forant

State v. Forant’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

47 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably In re Carter (2004), State v. Couture (1999)

47 state decisions

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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 State v. Pelican · State v. Streich · State v. Barnett · State v. Jarvis · State v. Knapp

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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Damages that are not readily ascertainable, such as pain and suffering, emotional trauma, loss of earning capacity, and wrongful death awards are not proper subjects of restitution ....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “only in extraordinary situations where it is obvious and strikes at the heart of defendant's constitutional rights or results in a miscarriage of justice.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “direct link between the crime and the restitution,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.