State v. Lalli’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2003
12 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 State v. Evans · State v. Hernandez · State v. Eaton · State v. Terrell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(5) The offense was a major controlled substance offense, identified as an offense or series of offenses relating to trafficking in controlled substances under circumstances more onerous than the usual offense. The presence of two or more of the circumstances listed below are aggravating factors with respect to the offense: (b) the offense involved an attempted or actual sale or transfer of controlled substances in quantities substantially larger than for personal use; or (e) the circumstances of the offense revealed the offender to have occupied a high position in the drug distribution hierarchy;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Zeigler
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.