Salazar v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Mitchell v. State (1994), Neill v. State (1994)
39 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
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 109
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Gregg v. Georgia · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The role of an appellate judge is to apply the law consistently and to ensure the rules of law are set forth to enable trial practitioners and trial judges to rely on those principles of law in the trial of cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“nearly nine decades of jurisprudence holding the proper punishment to be that which is on the books at the time the crime was committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The substantive law is that which declares what acts are crimes and prescribes the punishment for committing them as distinguished from the procedural law which provides or regulates the steps by which one who commits a crime is to be punished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.