State v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Hernandez (1993), Diversey Corp. v. Chem-Source Corp. (1998)
50 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 Patterson v. United States · American Petrofina Co. v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union Local No. 4-23 · State v. Sutphin · Holder v. United States · Schuyler National Bank v. Bollong
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In establishing a burglary, [a]ny penetration, however slight, of the interior space is sufficient [to constitute entry]. Since there was no dispute that [the] defendant's hand penetrated the engine compartment of the vehicle, there would have been no rational basis for the jury to find attempted burglary but not burglary itself[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Muqqddin“The purpose of the rule is to maintain the effectiveness of cross-examination by preventing witnesses from using knowledge of prior testimony to recast their own testimony, perhaps even with honorable motives, to conform to what other witnesses have said or to otherwise anticipate possible cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is substantially likely to cause a miscarriage of justice, the judge should grant a defendant's motion for a mistrial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Comitz
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.