State v. Leja’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · State v. Griller · State v. Schantzen · State v. Cox
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The aggravating factor of particular cruelty looks to whether “[t]he victim was treated with particular cruelty for which the individual offender should be held responsible.” Here, it is undisputed that Leja was more than an innocent bystander. But she was not the person who assaulted and shot [the victim] or dismembered his body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hicks
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.