Montgomery v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably State v. Roscoe (1996), State v. Smith (1996)
33 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 State v. Bible · Montgomery v. Sheldon · State v. Gortarez · Wilson v. Ellis · State v. Whipple
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]onsistent with Ariz. Const. art. 2, § 24 and A.R.S. § 13-4035, the court of appeals must examine the record before it for fundamental error....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“MOELLER, V.C.J., and CORCORAN and ZLAKET, JJ., concur. MARTONE, Justice, concurring in the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“[] § 13-4035 requires the court of appeals to search for fundamental error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith
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.