State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Kotwicki (2007), State v. Garrymore (2006)
32 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 North Carolina v. Alford · State v. Lenihan · State v. Arlington · State v. Hatfield · State v. Radi
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[ejxplicit, rather than implicit consideration of the criteria makes for a much more meaningful appellate review. In future cases, we strongly encourage district courts, in imposing sentence upon nonviolent offenders, to specifically recognize and address the criteria set forth in § 46-18-225, MCA.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a district court has no power to impose a sentence in the absence of specific statutory authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garrymore · Pena v. State“not in excess of the maximum statutorily authorized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Kmg · State v. Garrymore
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.