State v. Sweet’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2025
19 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. Ardolino · State v. Shortsleeves · State v. King · State v. Pfeil
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[BJecause the convictions are for offenses based on different conduct or arising from different criminal episodes, and because, in my view the number of charges, the number of incidents, and the seriousness of those charges require a sentence of imprisonment, ... in excess of the maximum available for the most serious offense, which would be five years[, t]hose two factors justify in my view imposition of consecutive sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Faulcon“In the case of a Class A crime, the court shall set a definite period not to exceed 40 years. The court may consider a serious criminal history of the defendant and impose a maximum period of incarceration in excess of 20 years based on either the nature and seriousness of the crime alone or on the nature and seriousness of the crime coupled with the serious criminal history of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gray“'determination of the basic sentence de novo for misapplication of legal principles and [the] determination of the maximum sentence for abuse of discretion.'”
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.