State v. Killpack’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Maestas (2012), State v. Lucero (2014)
80 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. Dunn · State v. Robinson · Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · State v. Shickles · State v. Bluff
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general, a trial court's sentencing decision will not be overturned unless it exceeds statutory or constitutional limits, the judge failed to consider all the legally relevant factors, or the actions of the judge were so inherently unfair as to constitute abuse of discretion.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Perkins · State v. LOYO“will overturn a sentencing decision only if it is clear that the actions of the [sentencing] judge were so inherently unfair as to constitute an abuse of discretion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gainer · State v. Nichols“if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Pullman
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.