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← 2010 UT 35 - State v. Drej

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.

  1. “produce[s] some evidence of the defense.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “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
  3. “'the legislature had any reasonable objective that warrants the disparity'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.