State v. Yarborough’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably State v. Salazar (1997), State v. Cleve (1999)
82 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 Morissette v. United States · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona · McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co. · State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · Gilbert 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provincial or transient notion. It is as universal and persistent in mature systems of law as belief in freedom of the human will and a consequent ability and duty of the normal individual to choose between good and evil.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez“intended to preempt involuntary manslaughter when the predicate offense is a misdemeanor contained within the Motor Vehicle Code”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Perea“[O]nly criminal negligence may be a predicate for a felony unless another intention is clearly expressed by the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mascarenas
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.