Ekstrand v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Wallace v. Cody (1991), Canady v. Reynolds (1994)
14 federal appellate · 9 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 Weaver v. Graham · Dobbert v. Florida · Miller v. Florida · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Lindsey v. State of Washington
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the amended statute constricts an inmate's opportunity to earn early release, and thereby makes more onerous the punishment for crimes committed before its enactment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“inmates who are disadvantaged by the amended statute, shall be entitled to the credits allotted under the statute effective on the date their crime was committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“runs afoul of the prohibition of ex post facto laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.