State v. Archibeque’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Bernal (2006), State v. Ortega (1991)
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 Rummel v. Estelle · United States v. DiFrancesco · McCutcheon v. Cox · State v. Sublett · State v. Sisneros
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.
“[O]ne could argue without fear of contradiction by any decision of this Court that for crimes concededly classified and classifiable as felonies, that is, as punishable by significant terms of imprisonment in a state penitentiary, the length of the sentence actually imposed is purely a matter of legislative prerogative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ortega
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.