Devaney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2017
10 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 Fair Share Organization v. Mitnick · Niece v. State · Golden v. State · State v. Williams · Borgman v. Borgman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, the habitual substance offender statute requires that the court 'shall sentence the defendant 'to an additional fixed term' of between three and eight years.... We need scarcely mention that permitting the suspension of an enhanced sentence imposed under this statute would defeat the clear intent of the legislature to punish and deter recidivistic conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reffett v. State“[t]he crime committed was a Class C felony and less than seven (7) years have elapsed between the date the person was discharged from probation, imprisonment, or parole, whichever is later, for a prior unrelated felony conviction and the date the person committed the Class C felony for which the person is being sentenced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bauer v. State“habitual substance offender statute require[d] that the court 'shall' sentence the defendant ‘to an additional fixed term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.