State v. Celestine’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2021
23 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona · United States v. Baker · State v. Utterback · Wheeler 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intermediary who arranges or facilitates the transfer of narcotics from the seller to the buyer may ... be charged and punished as a principal in the act of distribution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is not necessary to `sell' contraband to aid and abet its distribution”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to deliver a controlled dangerous substance ... by physical delivery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.