Erickson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Johnson v. State (2014), Iyapana v. State (2012)
37 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 McClain v. State · Whitton v. State · State v. Dunlop · Thessen v. State · State v. Wentz
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly convineed that the [precedent] was originally erroneous or is no longer sound because of changed conditions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Joseph v. State · Joseph v. State“first, that reasonable judges, confronted with identical facts, can and will differ on what constitutes an appropriate sentence; . second, that society is willing to accept these sentencing discrepancies, so long as a judge's sentencing decision falls within 'a permissible range of reasonable sentences.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“a separate offense of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor is committed whenever the defendant engages in a distinct form of sexual penetration with the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Iyapana v. State
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.