State v. Cruz’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably In Re Goodwin (2002), State v. Delgado (2003)
74 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 Landgraf v. USI Film Products · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Collins v. Youngblood · Miller v. Florida · Granito v. United States
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] prior conviction is one that exists before the date of sentencing for the current offense.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keller · State v. Nordlund“`is an essential thread in the mantle of protection that the law affords the individual citizen.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In RE LaHAPELLE · State v. Hanson“(1) the [L]egislature so intended; (2) it is `curative'; or (3) it is remedial, provided, however, such retroactive application does not run afoul of any constitutional prohibition.”
4 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.