State v. Ashby’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Herman (2008), State v. District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District of Montana (2010)
162 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. Lenihan · State v. Kotwicki · State v. Montoya · State v. Herd · State v. Ommundson
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so long as the condition has a nexus to either the offense for which the offender is being sentenced, or to the offender himself or herself.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause sentencing statutes authorize sentencing judges to impose conditions on deferred or suspended sentences that constitute reasonable restrictions or conditions considered necessary for rehabilitation or for the protection of the victim or society, the reasonableness of such conditions will be reviewed for an abuse of discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is insufficient that a condition of sentence relate[s] generally to rehabilitation; rather 'there must be a correlation between the crime for which the defendant was convicted and the condition imposed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Montana v. Mehan
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.