State v. Vanwey’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2021
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Wright v. Kansas Water Office · State v. Ruff · State v. Boos · State v. Roderick · State v. Scherzer
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We have defined an “ ‘illegal sentence’ [as] either a sentence imposed by a court without jurisdiction; a sentence which does not conform to the statutory provision, either in the character or the term of the punishment authorized; or a sentence which is ambiguous with respect to the time and manner in which it is to be served.” ’ ” (Quoting State v. Scherzer, 254 Kan. 926 , Syl. ¶ 1, 869 P.2d 729 [1994].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sisk“Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders or other parts of the record and errors in the record arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time and after such notice, if any, as the court orders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith“[T]he sentencing of a criminal defendant is strictly controlled by statute in Kansas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Quested
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.