State v. Arabie’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Chipps (2016), State v. Thomas (2011)
53 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. Schaefer · State v. Balfour · State v. KORTH AND STEELE · State v. Conger · Lee v. Maass
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he sentencing judge may exercise wide discretion with respect to the type of information used as well as its source. He should have full access to the fullest information possible concerning the defendant’s life and characteristics. Information which should be available to the court includes general moral character, mentality, habits, social environment, tendencies, age, aversion or inclination to commit crime, life, family, occupation, and previous criminal record....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'so ineffective and counsel's representation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hauge · State v. Bauer“[T]here should be no “issues the attorney believes are meritorious” or “attorney issues” in a proper Korth brief. This is only logical because, if there are issues in the case that counsel believes are meritorious, counsel should obviously abandon the Korth procedure and brief and argue those issues as in any other criminal appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Paulson
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.