State v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Texas v. United States · Commonwealth v. Klobuchir · Zittman v. McGrath · United States v. Certain Parcels of Land in the County of Fairfax · State v. Herrera
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[where there exists no more than a difference of opinion regarding the hypothetical application of a piece of legislation to a situation in which the parties might, at some future time, find themselves, the question is unripe for adjudication.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“possible cireumstances under which we would not need to address the constitutionality of [a statute},”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“serves to prevent courts from issuing advisory opinions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.