State v. Bethel’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2010
9 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. Thompson · State v. Dixon · State v. Nierstheimer
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.
“[W]e do not mean to indicate that in every case it is necessary to establish precisely the amount of non-controlled substance present in the substance transferred, providing it is reasonable to infer or there is an expert opinion that the non-controlled portion of the substance is not sufficient to lower the weight below the statutory demarcation line.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McClain · State v. Hyzer“We do not regard this as an exception. It is not a crime to possess, sell or otherwise transfer non-controlled substances. It is the state’s burden to establish that defendant sold controlled substances and, if pertinent, the amount. Sterilized seed is not a controlled substance anymore than blue grass or wheat. If the controlled substance is mixed with a non-controlled substance and the weight of the controlled substance is important, the state must establish what that weight is.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hyzer“[I]t was possible for the jury to conclude that the transaction here involved the sale for remuneration of less than 25 grams of marijuana — a felony. It could also determine that it involved a transfer of less than 25 grams without remuneration — a misdemeanor Whether we treat the misdemeanor as a lesser included offense of the felony or as a lesser grade or degree of the felony, an instruction on the misdemeanor was required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hyzer
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.