State v. Denning’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably State v. Blackwell (2006), State v. Mumford (2010)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Spaziano v. Florida · Jones v. United States · United States v. Bowdach · State v. Jerrett
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that because the factors before the trial judge in determining sentencing are not elements of the offense, their consideration for purposes of sentencing is a function of the judge and therefore not susceptible to constitutional challenge based upon . . . article I, section 24 of the North Carolina Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blackwell“That the judge rather than the jury makes the crucial factual determinations upon which the ultimate sentence is based does not contravene [the State Constitution]. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blackwell
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.