State v. Behl’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Martin (2009), Associated Builders & Contractors v. Ventura (2000)
44 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 Gault · Ingraham v. Wright · Kent v. United States · Bowers v. Hardwick · United States v. RLC
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can consider all the circumstances, including the fact that the defendant utilized a short-barrelled shotgun in the killing and any other factors that would support either an upward or downward departure from the sentencing guidelines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Behl“a blending of juvenile and adult criminal dispositions that extends jurisdiction over a young person to age twenty-one and permits the court to impose both a juvenile disposition and a criminal sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. JES“to treat things that are different in fact or opinion as though they were the same in law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re PT
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.