State v. Denney’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably State v. Ellmaker (2009), State v. Stevens (2007)
52 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Alaska · State v. Ortiz · United States v. Kirby
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legislativelycreated procedures evince a laudable, yet limited, effort to provide for postconviction DNA testing under narrow circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thurber · State v. Angelo“(b)(1) The court shall notify the prosecuting attorney of a petition made under subsection (a) and shall afford the prosecuting attorney an opportunity to respond. (2) Upon receiving notice of a petition made under subsection (a), the prosecuting attorney shall take such steps as are necessary to ensure that any remaining biological material that was secured in connection with the case is preserved pending the completion of proceedings under this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Angelo“(g) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the circumstances under which a person may obtain DNA testing or other postconviction relief under any other provision of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Angelo
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.