State v. Houk’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2016
14 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 State v. Nuttall · State v. Thurston · State v. Carson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court may only find abuse `if it can be said that no reasonable [person] would take the view adopted by the trial court.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“or if the judge imposed a clearly excessive sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the sentencing decisions of a trial court for abuse of discretion. Abuse of discretion 'may be manifest if the actions of the judge in sentencing were”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pierson
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.