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← 122 R.I. 560 - State v. Sepe

State v. Sepe’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
June 2013
most recently cited

2 district · 33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably State v. Gomes (1997), State v. Garcia (2000)

2 district · 33 state decisions

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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 People v. . Molineux · State v. Villavicencio · State v. Mancini · State v. Colangelo · Commonwealth v. Robinson

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “evidence of criminal conduct tending to show that a defendant had formed a settled purpose * * * is admissible, and * * * the criminality of such prior acts does not affect their admissibility.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “they are received in spite of their criminality.”
    1 later decision 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.