State v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Rimmasch (1989), State v. Fedorowicz (2002)
28 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 22 Utah 2d 343 - State v. Shondel · People v. Parks · State v. Clark · 159 W. Va. 353 - State v. Myers · 8 Utah 2d 314 - State v. Twitchell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he criminal laws must be written so that there are significant differences between offenses and so that the exact same conduct is not subject to different penalties depending upon which of two statutory sections a prosecutor chooses to charge. To allow that would be to allow a form of arbitrariness that is foreign to our system of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“two statutes are wholly duplicative as to the elements of the crime”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.