State v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 176 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Diar (2008), State v. Maxwell (2014)
2 federal appellate · 176 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Illinois v. Gates · Crawford v. Washington · California v. Trombetta · State v. Foster · Crane v. Kentucky
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not 'testimonial in nature because they are prepared in the ordinary course of regularly conducted business and are "by their nature”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“business records are, 'by their nature,' not testimonial”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“admission of testimonial statements of a witness who did not appear at trial unless he was unavailable to testify, and the defendant had had a prior opportunity for cross-examination.”
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.