Falcon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Heckelsmiller v. State (2004), Garcia v. State (2004)
39 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 Sargent County Bank v. Wentworth · State v. Jensen · In the Matter of Hipp Inc David Oles · Knudson v. Director, North Dakota Department of Transportation · Kaiser v. State
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation of a statute is a fully reviewable question of law, and our primary objective is to ascertain the intent of the legislature by looking at the language of the statute itself and giving it its plain, ordinary and commonly understood meaning. Consideration should be given to the context of the statutes and the purposes for which they were enacted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Johnson
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.