State v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Kotwicki (2007), State v. Rosling (2008)
64 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 United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke · State v. Lenihan · State v. Montoya · State v. Brister
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that his sentence is illegal because it was predicated on misinformation about his criminal history, thus violating his due process rights in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 17, of the Montana Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garrymore“[he] challenges only the legal validity of the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garrymore“within the parameters provided by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pena 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.