Nowack v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2019
20 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[where independent but overlapping statutes are directed to separate evils, cumulative punishments are intended.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“"The provisions in issue here, however, unambiguously specify the activity proscribed and the penalties available upon conviction. That this particular conduct may violate both Titles does not detract from the notice afforded by each. Although the statutes create uncertainty as to which crime may be charged and therefore what penalties may be imposed, they do so to no greater extent than would a single statute authorizing various alternative punishments."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Worcester v. State“Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 453-454 , 90 S.Ct. 1189, 1199-1200 , 25 L.Ed.2d 469 (1970) (Brennan, J., concurring). - But that was not the view of the majority, a point emphatically driven home by Justice Harlan, ibid. at 448 , 90 S.Ct. at 1196, and that notion has been subsequently rejected. In Garreit v. United States, 471 U.S. [773] at 790, 105 S.Ct. [2407] at 2417 [ 85 L.Ed.2d 764 (1985) ], the Court said:”
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.