State v. Kotwicki’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
189 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Ashby (2008), State v. West (2008)
189 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · State v. Lenihan · State v. Garrymore · State v. McLeod · State v. Swoboda
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sentencing court's failure to abide by a statutory requirement rises to an objectionable sentence, not necessarily an illegal one that would invoke the Lenihan exception.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kmg · State v. Jones“allows appellate review of a criminal sentence that is alleged to be illegal or in excess of statutory mandates, even if the defendant raised no objection in the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kmg“Kotwicki's fine of $25,000 falls within the parameters of that statute, and thus Kotwicki's sentence is not an illegal sentence for the purposes of invoking the Lenihan rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kmg
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.