State v. Pettit’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2000
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. Hildebrand · State v. Miller · State v. Blood · State v. Ridout · State v. McKeever
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.
“Upon a plea ... of guilty of a third or subsequent violation of this section, the court in which the plea was entered ... shall order that the defendant’s license or permit to operate motor vehicles be revoked by the department and that the defendant shall remain ineligible for a new license or permit for a period of six years.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Master · State v. Grogan“[The revocation provision] does not expressly provide for a six-year limitation, and we will not read one into it.... Had the legislature intended a six-year statute of limitation to be included in [the revocation provision], it could easily have done so.... We have no reason to conclude that the legislature intended the six-year limitation in the criminal section to be applied as a part of the revocation proceedings ... in view of the different policy considerations and the different purposes in the sections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under section 321.281(9)(a) ... when the requisite number of convictions have been found, the trial court has no discretion. It must order the revocation. Therefore, there can be no abuse of that discretion, and we reject the defendant’s argument on that ground. Moreover, as we have already noted, this is a license revocation proceeding, not a sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Master
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.