State v. Bachman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2007
14 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. Batson · State v. Horn · State v. Baker · State v. Renfro
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the court considered it `entirely possible' that medical necessity could be asserted as a defense to a marijuana possession charge in a `proper case' (pursuant to HRS 703-302), such a defense would require proof of the beneficial effects of marijuana use on the defendant's condition by competent medical testimony, as well as the absence or ineffectiveness of more conventional medical alternatives. The court emphasized that relief from `simple discomfort' would not suffice. Instead, the court said, the harm to which defendant is exposed must be `serious' and `imminent.' The court noted, as well, that a statutory vehicle existed in the jurisdiction whereby marijuana was available through prescription by a licensed medical practitioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Promoting a detrimental drug in the first degree. (1) A person commits the offense of promoting a detrimental drug in the first degree if the person knowingly: [[Image here]] (e) Possesses one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures, or substances of an aggre gate weight of one pound or more, containing any marijuana[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mallan
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.