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← 2008 MT 162 - State v. Breeding

State v. Breeding’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

53
cited by 53 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Jent (2013), State v. McMaster (2008)

53 state decisions

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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. Herd · State v. Weaver · State v. Stephenson · State v. Beavers · State v. Setters

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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the sentencing court had statutory authority to impose the sentence, whether the sentence falls within the parameters set by the applicable sentencing statutes, and whether the court adhered to the affirmative mandates of the applicable sentencing statutes.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[a] person commits the offense of theft when the person purposely or knowingly obtains or exerts unauthorized control over property of the owner and has the purpose of depriving the owner of the property.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “This determination is a question of law and, as such, our review is de novo.”
    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.