State v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1985 · most notably State v. Leyba (1969), State v. Brusenhan (1968)
29 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. Williams · State v. Alaniz · State v. Gilbert · State v. Buchanan · State v. Elledge
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district judge questioned defendant concerning his age, his prior criminal record, his marital status, the proceedings before the justice of the peace, his understanding of the charge, his understanding of the possible penalty and his reasons for pleading guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Maldonado
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.