State v. Fell’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably State v. Martinez (2005), State v. Garrymore (2006)
36 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 United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Ring v. Arizona · State v. Gretzler
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alter or affect earlier established substantive rights,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State · State v. Williams“the imposition of a sentence on the basis of factors that the prior law excluded from consideration,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State · Weaver v. State“|'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
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.