State v. Dannenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Briones v. State (1993), Gray v. Administrative Director of Court (1997)
54 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 State v. Kumukau · State v. Johnson · State v. Ui · Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. v. Burns · State Ex Rel. Marsland v. Town
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) A person convicted of committing the offense of prostitution shall be sentenced as follows: (a) For the first offense, where the court has not deferred further proceedings pursuant to chapter 853, a mandatory fine of $500 and the person may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of no more than thirty days [[Image here]] (b) For the subsequent offense, a fine of $500 and a term of imprisonment of thirty days, without possibility of further proceedings pursuant to chapter 853 and without possibility of suspension of sentence or probation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In State v. Rice [, 66 Haw. 101 , 657 P.2d 1026 (1983)], we interpreted “[njotwith-standing any other law to the contrary” in the above statute as language “taking away the trial court’s power to grant [DANC] pleas in prostitution cases.” [Id.] at 102, 657 P.2d at 1026 . Today we affirm that holding and clarify our reasoning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hamili · State v. Klie“As Defendant points out, HRS § 712-1200 is ambiguous as to whether the ‘notwithstanding any other law to the contrary’ refers to HRS ch. 853 (1985 & Supp. 1991) which is the statutory authority for permitting discretionary deferred acceptance of guilty pleas and deferred acceptance of nolo contendere pleas. Defendant’s argument that the sentencing provisions of HRS § 712-1200 only apply where defendant is actually ‘convicted’ and that a DANC is not a conviction is well-taken. However, to permit a trial court to defer the entry of a plea in order to avoid a conviction permits the court to avoid the sentencing scheme created by the legislature specifically for prostitution eases and is therefore repugnant to the legislative intent in enacting the prostitution law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.