Deats v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably State v. Davis (2003), State v. Kendall (1977)
30 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 Rice v. Gonzales · State v. Crouch · Conston v. New Mexico State Board of Probation & Parole · Southern Union Gas Company v. City of Artesia · Swope v. Cooksie
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever any convict shall have been committed under several convictions with separate sentences, they shall be construed as one continuous sentence for the full length of all the sentences combined.”
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.