State v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Garrymore (2006), Washington v. Commissioner of Correction (2008)
128 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 Green v. United States · United States v. DiFrancesco · United States v. Scott · Crist v. Bretz · Ex parte Lange
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the sentence orally pronounced from the bench in the presence of the defendant is the legally effective sentence and valid, final judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Horton · State v. Humphrey“Correction of sentence. The court may correct an erroneous sentence or disposition at any time and may correct a sentence imposed in an illegal manner within 120 days after the sentence is imposed or after remand from an appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in the event of a conflict between the oral pronouncement of sentence and the written judgment and commitment, the oral pronouncement controls.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Hamilton
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.