State v. Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Breeding (2008), State v. Coleman (2018)
37 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. Ariegwe · State v. Warclub · State v. Hatfield · State v. Munoz · State v. Stone
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sentencing condition is illegal if the sentencing court lacked statutory authority to impose it, if the condition falls outside the parameters set by the applicable sentencing statutes, or if the court did not adhere to the affirmative mandates of the applicable sentencing statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Coleman“No statute, however, authorizes an assessment 'in the nature of [a] surcharge fee' to be paid to the community service program.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court has no power to impose a sentence in the absence of specific statutory authority.”
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.