State v. Sepulveda’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
7
states following
July 2011
most recently cited
2 district · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · North Carolina v. Pearce · Teague v. Lane · Griffith v. Kentucky · Melvin Tyler v. Burl Cain Warden
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law regarding retroactivity is complex enough without requiring counsel and trial judges to apply different retroactivity rules, depending on whether the substantive decision is grounded on state or federal constitutional principles — especially when many decisions are grounded on both. Given the supremacy of the United States Supreme Court on federal issues and its current explication of the law, we think public policy presently requires that we adopt and apply the federal retroactivity analysis to decisions of state constitutional law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tallard
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.