State v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), State v. Menzies (1994)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Hamling v. United States · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Weaver v. Graham
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[aln ex-post-facto law is one that "punishes as a crime an act previously committed, which was innocent when done; which makes more burdensome the punishment for a crime, after its commission; or which deprives one charged with crime of any defense available according to law at the time when the act was committed."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No part of these revised statutes is retroactive, unless expressly so declared.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a clear break with the past' will sometimes be nonretroactive”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Menzies · State v. Guard
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.