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← 806 NW2D 597 - State v. Cain

State v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Zafiro v. United States · United States v. Zafiro · State v. Olander · State v. Jensen · State v. Klose

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “This court reviews [dangerous special] offender proceedings and the district court's application of a sentencing enhancement under N.D.C.C. § 12.1-32-09 for an abuse of discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “A trial court abuses its discretion only when it acts in an arbitrary, unreasonable, or capricious manner, or misinterprets or misapplies the law.”
    1 later decision 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.