State v. Megard’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2025
22 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. Lane · State v. Kroll · State v. Fertterer · Territory of Montana v. Clayton · State v. Owens
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court reviews a district court's imposition of sentence for legality only. The question is one of law and the determination is whether the district court interpreted the law correctly.”
2 later decisions 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.