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← 2009 MT 300 - State v. Ness

State v. Ness’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Ashby · State v. Herman · State v. Ommundson · State v. Breeding · 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “eliminat[e] the words requiring a victim to be a victim 'of the offense' and the victim's loss to be 'as a result of the offense.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'some correlation or connection to the underlying offense' for which [the defendant is being] sentenced.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “relax in some fashion the requirement that victim losses be a 'result' of the offense,”
    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.