State v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Martindale v. Tenny (1992), State v. Jackson (1986)
37 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 State v. Doyen · State v. Roberts · Farmers State Bank & Trust Co. v. City of Yates Center · State v. Crozier · State v. Gobin
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll crimes are established by legislative act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v.Lundberg · State v. Pollman“Much as we might desire to do so, it is not our function to create a crime where the legislature has not done so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v.Lundberg
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.