State v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably State v. Ford (1970), State v. Sedillo (1971)
32 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. Williams · State v. Selgado · Fredenburgh v. Allied Van Lines, Inc. · State v. Lobb
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * This alleged inequality in sentences for the same offense, if true, does not provide a basis for post-conviction relief. The 'equal protection of the law’ provisions of the United States and New Mexico Constitutions do not require uniform enforcement of the law and do not protect defendant from the consequences of his crime. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lunn · State v. Follis
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.