Basden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2016
12 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 National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Boykin v. State · Muniz v. State · Moore v. State · Cruz v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any inmate who is serving a lengthy sentence and receives additional sentences for additional crimes while incarcerated will never be punished... [and] will never serve additional time after the first [consecutive] sentence they have received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Johnson v. State“Id., n. 4. We explained how in certain circumstances the plain meaning of the statute would lead to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Johnson v. State“would lead to the absurd result of permitting inmates to commit crimes without fear of punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Johnson v. State
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.