State v. Kilpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 2000
3 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 State v. Karas
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for identification by voice of a person to be sufficient [to sustain a conviction], the identifier must either be familiar with the voice of the person identified or that person's voice possesses some peculiar characteristic which could not be easily mistaken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Silva
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.