State v. Fell’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Fell (2005), State v. PAREDES-SOLANO (2009)
27 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.
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Furman v. Georgia · Ring v. Arizona · William Marbury v. James Madison
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“|'i]n determining whether to impose a sentence of life or natural life [in a noncapital case], the [trial] court ... [s]hall consider the aggravating and mitigating circumstances listed in § 13-702 and any statement made by a victim.” § 13-703.01 (Q)(2). 2 . Williams acknowledged during his resentencing proceedings, and concedes on appeal, that the supreme court in Fell already”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“[j]udicial factfinding in the course of selecting a sentence within the authorized range does not implicate the indictment, jury-trial, and reasonable-doubt components of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chiappetta
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.