State v. Heath’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Whitlow v. State (2008), State v. Hicks (2006)
84 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Allsup · State v. Martinez · State v. Herrman · Kiernan v. Van Schaik
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“regarding the appropriate remedy for a partially illegal sentence....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[DISTRICT] COURT: Can you put aside everything that you know, that you have learned from your education and from your volunteer work, can you put that aside and base your judgment solely on the testimony and evidence presented in this courtroom? CALDWELL: Yes. [DISTRICT] COURT: And follow the law as given to you by the court? CALDWELL: Yes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] party may not raise new arguments or change his legal theory on appeal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garrymore
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.