State v. Heide’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably State v. Duke (1994), State v. Bafford (1994)
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 United States v. Navarro-Flores · Mawson v. United States · State v. Webb · United States v. Posner · 94 Wash. 2d 791 - State v. Happy
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.
““(4) Before imposing sentence the court shall: “(c) address the defendant personally and ask the defendant if the defendant wishes to make a statement on the defendant’s own behalf and to present any evidence in mitigation of punishment. Before imposing sentence the court may allow the victim or victim’s family to address the court, if they so request.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bafford · State v. Borders““Before imposing sentence the court shall afford counsel an opportunity to speak on behalf of the defendant and shall address the defendant personally and ask [the defendant] if [the defendant] wishes to make a statement on [the defendant’s] own behalf and to present any evidence in mitigation of punishment.'’ (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Spencer
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.