State v. Stetter’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (1999), Carpenter v. City of Belle Fourche (2000)
25 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. Burtzlaff · State v. Kidd · State v. Corder · State v. Havens · State v. Blakey
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[N]o hard and fast rules exist which state with certainty when prosecutorial misconduct reaches a level of prejudicial error which demands reversal of the conviction and a new trial; each case must be decided on its own facts.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee · State v. McMillen“While the statutes may produce results which appear inconsistent under this particular fact situation, [defendant] has not shown that the legislative intent was not followed. "[W]hen a statute is clear and unambiguous it is improper for courts to attempt to go behind the express terms of the provision so as to legislate that which the words of the statute do not themselves provide. In other words, the `letter of a clear and unambiguous statute cannot be disregarded under the pretext of pursuing its spirit, because the legislative intent is presumed clear from the face of the statute.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. DeNoyer“When a defendant has been convicted of one or two prior felonies under the laws of this state or any other state or the United States, in addition to the principal felony, the sentence for the principal felony shall be'enhanced by changing the class of the principal felony to the next class which is more severe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson
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.