Stuart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2002
24 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 United States v. Ventresca · Davis v. United States · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · McClain v. State · 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only difference between Stuart's case and Lausterer’s is that Stuart was convicted of three separate offenses. In the context of an ongoing drug business, we do not think this distinction sufficient to warrant additional time. In Lausterer , we made it clear that it was only the defendant’s substantial involvement in the commercial sale of cocaine that warranted the sentence he received. In context, multiple charges serve only to validate the conclusion that the person making the sales is involved in the commercial distribution of cocaine and to establish the scope of the illegal enterprise. We believe that the supreme court’s admonition that in evaluating consecutive sentences one must look to the total sentence imposed is particularly applicable to drug offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marin v. State“the amount of drugs involved in an offense is only one of several factors relevant to sentencing in a drug case ... the amount of cocaine involved here [more than half a pound] renders this case sufficiently aggravated to permit, without violating the principles of Austin , the imposition of an unsuspended term of four years, an amount equal to the second offense presumptive sentence for a class B felony. [Footnote omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brandenburg v. State“When a person is engaged in an ongoing commercial drug business; and multiple convictions involved the same parties, the same type of drug, and a short period of time, we see little justification in imposing a greater sentence in those cases where it elects to charge multiple counts than where it elects to proceed on a single count. In both cases, the evidence at sentencing will be essentially the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bayne 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.