Landers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Gonzalez v. State (2000), Bigon v. State (2008)
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 Blockburger v. United States · Ball v. United States · Jones v. Thomas · Bradley v. Ohio · Thomas v. Southtrust Bank of Alabama
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.
“That test requires retaining the offense with the most serious punishment and vacating any remaining offenses that are the 'same' for double jeopardy purposes. The 'most serious punishment' is the longest sentence imposed, with rules of parole eligibility and good time serving as a tie-breaker.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Cavazos“Application of the most serious punishment test shows that the Court of Appeals correctly decided which conviction to dismiss. The UUMV conviction carries a 62 year sentence while the theft conviction carried a sentence of only 9 months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Cavazos“the benefit of the most serious punishment obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bien 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.