State v. Saxton’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Gomez (2007), State v. Bobby Cooksey (2012)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · California v. Trombetta · United States v. McConney · State v. Rushton · State v. Duffy
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the factual circumstances determined by a district court constitute exigent circumstances is a conclusion of law reviewed for correctness. State v. Saxton, 2003 MT 105, ¶ 19 , 315 Mont. 315, ¶ 19 , 68 P.3d 721, ¶ 19 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Anyan“questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Honey“must be vital to the defense . . . the defense must show the evidence was material and of substantial use”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.