State v. Brummer’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Montoya (1999), State Ex Rel. Mazurek v. District Court of the Twentieth Judicial District (2000)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 United States v. Honorable June L. Green, United States District Court Judge · State Ex Rel. Bennett v. Bonner · Lowe v. People · Baxter v. Archie Cochrane Motors, Inc. · State v. Bell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this construction, all subsections of § 46-16-702, MCA, are given effect: so far as the defendant is concerned, he may move for a new trial, and if he so moves, his motion must he in writing and filed within 30 days of the verdict or finding of guilty, however, the right of the defendant to move for a new trial does not affect the court’s inherent power to order a new trial sua sponte when required in the interest of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morse“our construction of § 46-16-702, MCA, is consistent with the purposes and construction of the rules of criminal procedure as stated by the Montana Legislature: “to provide for the just determination of every criminal proceeding ... [and] to secure simplicity in procedure, fairness in administration, and ehmination of unjustifiable expense and delay.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morse“This authority embodies 'the equitable concept that neither a wronged litigant nor society itself can afford to be without some means to remedy a palpable miscarriage of justice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marker
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.