State v. Secrest’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2022
14 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. Nixon · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Oyler v. Boles · United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder
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.
“The Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause prohibits selected enforcement ‘based upon an unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, or other arbitrary classification_to avoid prosecution for a criminal offense on equal protection grounds, a defendant must show that the government exercised selective enforcement of the law upon an invidious discriminatory basis.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“recognized the long-standing rule that when an action violates two criminal statutes, the government may prosecute under either, providing that it does not discriminate against any class of defendants”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rooney“based upon an unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, or other arbitrary classification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.