State v. Mollberg’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Wiley (1985), State v. Theodosopoulos (1979)
2 district · 48 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Spinelli v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Cady v. Dombrowski
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.
“In such a case, the record must affirmatively show that the court sentenced the defendant solely upon the facts of his case and his personal history, and not as punishment for his refusal to plead guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Niemczyk · State v. Knaak
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.