State v. Cesnik’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Sunburst School District No. 2 v. Texaco, Inc. (2007), State v. Garrymore (2006)
34 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 State v. Stringer · State v. Imlay · State v. Fuller · State v. McLeod · State v. Passama
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince Cesnik opened the door to the question of whether Sipe wanted Cesnik banned from the club, testimonial evidence of certain phrases on Cesnik's truck and clothing were relevant to the jury's understanding of the strained relationship between the two men.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gardiner“a sentencing court may not punish a defendant for failing to accept responsibility for the crime when that defendant has expressly maintained his innocence and has a right to appeal his conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rennaker“would have undermined his constitutionally protected right not to incriminate himself and rendered his appeal meaningless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rennaker
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.