State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably MacRis & Associates, Inc. v. Neways, Inc. (2000), State v. Houston (2015)
50 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 Blockburger v. United States · United State v. Morgan · State v. Dunn · State v. Menzies · Landes v. Capital City Bank
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rule 22(e) allows an appellate court to `vacate the illegal sentence without first remanding the case to the trial court, even if the matter was never raised before.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dana · State v. Houston“'may correct an illegal sentence, or a sentence imposed in an illegal manner, [at] any time.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] request to correct an illegal sentence ... presupposes a valid conviction”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.