State v. Drej’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
45
cited by 45 later decisions
3
states following
March 2026
most recently cited
43 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Ring v. Arizona · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“produce[s] some evidence of the defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The legislature unquestionably has the exclusive authority to define what acts constitute crimes and what the elements of those crimes are.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the legislature had any reasonable objective that warrants the disparity'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Houston · State v. Angilau
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.