Duffy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Renfro v. State (1990), Brown v. State (1987)
37 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 Blockburger v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Helvering v. Hallock · 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch · Cass v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments: The legislative, executive and judicial, and no person or collection of persons charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any powers properly belonging to either of the others, except as in this constitution expressly directed or permitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hansen v. State““Section 1. Definitions, (a) ‘Good time allowance’ is a reduction of the maximum sentence of an inmate in the amount of ten (10) days per month for each month served on a sentence as a result of the inmate’s proper and helpful attitude, conduct and behavior in the institution and/or as the result of his/her adherence to the rules of the institution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Duffy 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.