State v. Mainwaring’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Brendal (2009), State v. Coleman (2018)
35 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. Montoya · Montana Power Co. v. Montana Public Service Commission · State v. Martel · State v. Damon · State v. Brogan
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] district court possesses the authority to designate and sentence a persistent felony offender pursuant to § 46-18-502, MCA, when the underlying charge meets the definition of a felony and the State has provided proper notice of its intent to seek persistent felony offender status under § 46-13-108, MCA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Brendal
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.