State v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather, the statute requires only that the court consider the defendant's financial resources in deciding whether to include a fine (and its amount) in the defendant's sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not condition the court's authority to impose a fine as part of a defendant's sentence on whether the defendant 'is or may be able to pay' it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is not susceptible to plain-error review.”
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.