State v. Masters’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Hopkins v. Reeves (1998), State v. Bjorklund (2000)
41 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 Beck v. Alabama · Schad v. Arizona · Yagow v. United States · Spaziano v. Florida · State v. Reeves
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of credit under § 83-1,106 is to avoid the situation where one convicted of a crime is incarcerated for a period greater than the maximum term of years prescribed as punishment for the particular offense. ... By its very nature [a life] sentence is indefinite. ... In the case of a life sentence, it is impossible to impose punishment exceeding the term prescribed by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rust“A person commits false imprisonment in the first degree if he knowingly restrains or abducts another person (a) under terrorizing circumstances or under circumstances which expose the person to the risk of serious bodily injury; or (b) with intent to hold him in a condition of involuntary servitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.