Tazruk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Brezenoff v. State (1983), Van Hatten v. State (1983)
29 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. Chaney · Austin v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that a sentence of eight years with five suspended is not greater than the presumptive sentence of four years for purposes of applying the Austin rule. When we evaluate a sentencel,] we consider the whole sentence including suspended time. However, in evaluating whether a sentence is in excess of the presumptive sentence which a second felony offender would receive, our primary focus should be on [the unsuspended] portion of the sentence.... By that standard, the three years of imprisonment to which Tazruk is sentenced is less than the four years which a second felony offender would receive. In the event that the suspended portion of Tazruk's sentence is later imposed, he would be entitled to bring a sentence appeal at that time. [But wel conclude that Tazruk's sentence does not violate the Austin rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dayton v. State“[I]n evaluating whether a sentence is in excess of the presumptive [term] which a second felony offender would receive, our primary focus [is] on [the unsuspended] portion of the sentence.... By that standard, the three years of imprisonment to which Tazruk is sentenced is less than the four years which a second felony offender would [presumptively] receive.... Tazruk’s sentence does not violate the Austin rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Surrells v. State
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.