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← 1998 MT 21 - State v. Lafley

State v. Lafley’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
February 2007
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Lenihan · Tanner v. Dream Island, Inc. · State v. Ahmed · State v. Flack · State v. Nelson

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

  1. “a sentence is not illegal when it is within the parameters provided by statute.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[i]n a direct appeal, the defendant is limited to those issues that were properly preserved in the district court and to allegations that the sentence is illegal or exceeds statutory mandates.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “`to a term of imprisonment in the state prison of not less than 2 years or more than 10 years,'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.