State v. Fish’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 189 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Wilson (1994), State v. Ortega (1991)
3 federal appellate · 189 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 Herring v. New York · State v. Vogenthaler · State v. Boeglin · State v. Hargrove · State v. Casteneda
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o permit an instruction on a lesser included offense, there must be evidence tending to establish the lesser offense * * *. Second, to permit an instruction on a lesser included offense, there must be some view of the evidence which could sustain a finding that the lesser offense was the highest degree of the crime committed.”
2 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.