State v. Faragi’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Delaware v. Van Arsdall (1986), State v. Towne (1992)
11 district · 52 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 Strickland v. Washington · Michigan v. Long · Dusky v. United States · Drope v. Missouri · South Carolina v. Katzenbach
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Common sense tells us that it is unlikely that a murderer would hide in his own home a gun used to shoot someone. If defendant shot Raimondi, as the affidavit states, one of the first things he would do would be to get rid of the gun. The handgun could easily have been disposed of permanently within a short time after the crime. It is not reasonable to infer that defendant drove from Somerset to Fall River and then casually placed a weapon which had fired more than one bullet into a man on the shelf in his bedroom closet. Ballistics is not only an accurate science, it is also well-known. We have been unable to find any case in which a search warrant was issued for a person's home on the sole basis that a handgun had been used by that person in the commission of the type of crime where the bullets used could be traced to the gun.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ward““First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient, which requires proof that counsel made such egregious errors that counsel was not functioning as the ‘counsel’ guaranteed by both constitutions. Second, the defendant must prove that counsel’s conduct actually prejudiced the defendant such that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different had counsel been competent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morse“was suspected of shooting a known acquaintance in the presence of three witnesses, and he would therefore have expected the police to try to connect him with a gun.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ward
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.