State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nygren v. State · Williams v. State · Kelly v. State · State v. Angaiak · State v. Shetters
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is usually a mistake for the court to issue a ruling that both raises the issue and decides it sua sponte . This kind of judicial decision-making, done without the benefit of adversarial briefing and argument, provides 'fertile conditions for the creation of judicial error.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Ranstead
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.