State v. Mello’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Page v. Work · State v. Reyes · State v. Butler · State v. Concepcion · State v. New Jersey Trade Waste Ass'n.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to define with precision the exact elements of the crime the defendant is alleged to have intended to commit with the firearm,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Williams“possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose is a preparatory crime”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Brims
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.