State v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Michigan v. Long · Weaver v. Graham · Dobbert v. Florida · Kansas v. Hendricks · Miller v. Florida
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.
“the 2014 Amendment retroactively increased defendants' punishment for a CSL violation by elevating the penalty from a fourth-degree to a third-degree crime and by mandating the imposition of PSL.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“rejected the State's argument that the Amendment did not increase the punishment for defendants' pre-2014 sex offenses but rather punished the commission of new crimes - the CSL violations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause the additional punishment attaches to a condition of defendants' sentences, the 'completed crime' necessarily relates back to the predicate offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.