State v. Fregien’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2021
9 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. Nelson · Huffine v. Boylan · State Ex Rel. McGrath v. Montana Twenty-First Judicial District Court
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““an investigative subpoena ... exists when facts and circumstances ... would warrant an honest belief in the mind of a reasonable and prudent person that an offense has been, or is being, committed and that ... information relative to the commission of that offense is in the possession of the person or institution to whom the subpoena is directed.””
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.