State v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2019
8 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. Hewey · State v. Parker · State v. Dodd · State v. Cyr · State v. Frost
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] departure from the sentencing process set forth in State v. Hewey , 622 A.2d 1151 (Me. 1993) [,] and now codified at [ 17-A M.R.S. § 1252-C ], creates no reviewable issue on direct appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cunneen“we do not consider the legality of a sentence on direct appeal unless a jurisdictional infirmity appears on the record so plainly as to preclude rational disagreement as to its existence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cunneen
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.