State v. Knowels’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2026
10 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. Olander · State v. Hersch · State v. Holte · State v. Johnson · State v. Haugen
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.
“An individual required to register under this section who violates this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. A court may not relieve an individual, other than a juvenile, who willfully violates this section from serving a term of at least ninety days in jail and completing probation of one year. An individual who violates this section who previously has pled guilty or been found guilty of violating this section is guilty of a class C felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lopez“language applicable only when imposing sentence. But the Supreme Court of North Dakota rejected that interpretation and concluded the failure to register as a sex offender is not a strict liability offense, and the requisite culpable mental state is”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lopez
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.