State v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 271 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Almendarez-Torres v. United States (1998), 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005)
2 federal appellate · 271 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 18 U.S.C. § 3559
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Rummel v. Estelle
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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the language of an initiative enactment is `plain, unambiguous, and well understood according to its natural and ordinary sense and meaning, the enactment is not subject to judicial interpretation.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[a] statute is presumed to be constitutional, and the party challenging its constitutionality bears the burden of proving its unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“a legislative classification will be upheld unless it rests on grounds wholly irrelevant to the achievement of legitimate state objectives.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.