State v. Mount’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 197 N.C. App. 461 - State v. Bare (2009), Starkey v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections (2013)
70 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 Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Flemming v. Nestor · Kansas v. Hendricks · Miller v. Florida · Hudson v. United States
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the danger of recidivism and protection of the public; (2) the impairment of law enforcement efforts from lack of information; (3) the prevention of victimization and prompt resolution of sexual or violent offenses; (4) the offender's reduced expectation of privacy because of the public's interest in safety; and (5) the protection of specific vulnerable groups and the public in general.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hamilton“that the fact that the Act is codified in the code of criminal procedure does not, in and of itself, transform the Act's nonpunitive, civil regulatory scheme into a criminal one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wardell“Hence, we conclude that the declared purpose of the Actthat of protecting the publicis nonpunitive for purposes of the first prong of our `intents' analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wardell
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.