State v. Skyers’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Blockburger v. United States · Ramada Inns, Inc. v. Dow Jones & Co. · Kuflom v. District of Columbia Bureau of Motor Vehicle Services · State v. Parson · Smith v. Smith
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“component. In support of its position, the INS points to the following language in the Delaware State Supreme Court case, State v. Skyers: 73 § 4753A ... is aimed at those who possess at least the standard quantity of illicit drugs, regardless of any proof of intent. The underlying presumption based on quantity possessed represents a legislative judgment that anyone found with that quantity of that particular drug will be presumed to be involved in”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gerbier v. Holmes
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.