Manes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Thompson v. State (2018), Swain v. State (2009)
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 Renfro v. State · Manes v. State · Young v. State · Brown v. State · Martinez v. State
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.
“An illegal sentence is one which exceeds statutory limits, imposes multiple terms of imprisonment for the same offense, or otherwise violates constitutions or the law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether a sentence is illegal is a question of law, which we review de novo.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. State · Mitchell v. State“[a] defendant is entitled to credit for time spent in presentence confinement, against both the minimum and maximum sentence, if the defendant was unable to post bond for the offense of which he was convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doolittle v. State
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.