State v. Wardell’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Shults (2006), State v. Zimmerman (2010)
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 Blockburger v. United States · Weems v. United States · Smith v. Doe · Gryger v. Burke · Russell v. Gregoire
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ince Shults's sentence is within statutory parameters, his equity argument is not properly before this Court. Although we will not review the equity of Shults's sentence, he is not precluded from petitioning for sentence review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Zimmerman“Where, as here, an offender is sentenced to more than one year in prison, we review that sentence for legality only. In such cases, any challenges to the equity of the sentence must be brought before the Sentence Review Division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Zimmerman
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.