Page v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Andrews (1985), Pears v. State (1985)
68 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. Wortham · Donlun v. State · Mutschler v. State · Asitonia v. State · Lacquement 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a person] convicted of [second-degree murder] should [typically] receive a sentence of from twenty to thirty years [to serve]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Pears v. State“A defendant convicted of murder in the second degree ... shall be sentenced to a definite term of imprisonment of at least five years but not more than 99 years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Yu v. State · Grossman v. State“the legislature clearly could have made presumptive sentencing applicable to second-degree murder[ ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlson 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.