State v. Finley’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Herman v. State (2006), McGarvey v. State (2014)
28 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 Strickland v. Washington · State v. Hanson · Vernon Kills on Top v. State · State v. Wright · Fitzpatrick v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“identify all facts supporting the grounds for relief set forth in the petition and have attached affidavits, records, or other evidence establishing the existence of those facts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. RACZ v. State · Doyle v. State“contemplated by § 46-21-104(1)(c), MCA, nor are unsupported allegations sufficient to entitle a petitioner to an evidentiary hearing. See Finley, ¶ 9; State v. Hanson, 1999 MT 226, ¶ 22 , 296 Mont. 82 , 988 P.2d 299 ; State v. Sullivan, 285 Mont. 235, 240 , 948 P.2d 215, 218-19 (1997); Eiler v. State, 254 Mont. 39, 42-43 , 833 P.2d 1124, 1126-27 (1992). We have specifically held that § 46-21-104(1)(c), MCA,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. RAYMOS v. State
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.