State v. LeMatty’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1991
5 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. Ammidown · State v. Niccum · State v. Carey · State v. Albers · State v. Peterson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court, upon its own motion or the application of the county attorney, in the furtherance of justice, may order the dismissal of any pending criminal prosecution, the reasons therefor being stated in the order and entered of record, and no such prosecution shall be discontinued or abandoned in any other manner. In Dunahoo, Judicial Discretion, 58 Iowa L.Rev. 1023,1040 (1973), the author states that this statutory provision “contrasts with that in some jurisdictions in which the prosecutor may dismiss the proceeding on his own initiative.” We believe that on the record presented in this case the trial court acted within its statutory authority in declining to accept the proffered plea bargain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Manning v. Engelkes
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.