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State v. Heath’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

117
cited by 117 later decisions
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

117 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Triplett (2008), State v. Eaton (2004)

117 state decisions

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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 National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. · State v. Ommundson · State v. Pritchett · S.L.H. v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund · Western Energy Co. v. State, Dept. of Rev.

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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “it was the Legislature's full intention that subsection (5) cross-refer, not to subsection (1), but to subsection (4), which contains all of the penalties and conditions which may be imposed for both deferred impositions of sentences and for suspensions of sentences.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “any other reasonable restrictions or conditions considered necessary for rehabilitation or for the protection of the victim or society.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “(1) Whenever the court believes that a victim of the offense may have sustained a pecuniary loss as a result of the offense or whenever the prosecuting attorney requests, the court shall order the probation officer, restitution officer, or other designated person to include in the presentence investigation and report: (a) documentation of the offender’s financial resources and future ability to pay restitution; and (b) documentation of the victim’s pecuniary loss, submitted by the victim or by the board of crime control if compensation for the victim’s loss has been reimbursed by the state.”
    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.