State v. Farmer’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Appleby (2009), State v. Sharp (2009)
50 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. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Shepard v. United States · James v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no requirement that a criminal defendant challenge the sufficiency of the evidence before the trial court in order to preserve it for appeal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . The phrase, 'at [a] . . . motor vehicle,' does not look or sound ambiguous to me. Shooting at a motor vehicle is one thing; shooting at a person is something else. Regardless of whether the State's or the defendant's version of events is relied upon here, Farmer shot only at Neal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Llamas · State v. Pattillo“eviscerates the criminal discharge statute by putting the focus right back on the shooter's intent, thus making it unavailable in the very situations it was designed to cover— situations where proof of intent to injure or kill is problematic.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pattillo · State v. Levy
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.