State v. Yazzie’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Houston (2015), State v. Candedo (2010)
26 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court shall determine, if a defendant has been adjudged guilty of more than one felony offense, whether to impose concurrent or consecutive sentences for the offenses. The court shall state on the record and shall indicate in the order of judgment and commitment: ... if the sentences before the court are to run concurrently or consecutively with any other sentences the defendant is already serving.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an act of grace by the court suspending the imposition or execution of a convicted offender's sentence upon prescribed conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Anderson“the history, character, and rehabilitative needs of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Anderson
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.