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← 2015 ND 40 - State v. Eckroth

State v. Eckroth’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2025
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Andrews v. O'HEARN · State v. Orr · State v. Thompson · State v. Cummings · Koenig v. State

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[o]ur power to notice obvious error ... cautiously and only in exceptional situations where the defendant has suffered serious injustice.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “To constitute obvious error, the error must be a clear deviation from an applicable legal rule under current law.”
    1 later decision 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.