People v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Lyons (1990), Souders v. Lucero (1999)
11 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a legitimate basis and that, considering the nature and use of the subject property, its enforcement [does] not unlawfully inhibit or circumscribe the defendant from engaging in constitutionally or statutorily protected conduct. 2”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Lyons · Souders v. Lucero
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.