State v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Charles McFarlane (2008), State v. Williams (2010)
27 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 Strickland v. Washington · Blockburger v. United States · Steer, Inc. v. Department of Revenue · Bradley v. Ohio · State v. Montoya
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) When the same transaction may establish the commission of more than one offense, a person charged with the conduct may be prosecuted for each offense. (2) A defendant may not, however, be convicted of more than one offense if: (a) one offense is included in the other[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would have been sentenced to a lesser term had counsel made the appropriate argument regarding the lesser-included offense under § 46-11-410, MCA, rather than under the [federal] Blockburger test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ellison
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.