State v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Chapple (1983), Clark v. Arizona (2006)
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 138 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. District Court · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he establishment of the character trait of acting without reflection tends to establish that appellant acted impulsively. From such a fact, the jury could have concluded that he did not premeditate the homicide.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arnett · State v. Rivera“A statement of the declarant’s then existing state of mind, emotion, sensation, or physical condition, such as intent, plan, motive, design, mental feeling, pain, and bodily health, is not excluded by § 19-16-4 [hearsay not admissible except as otherwise provided], even though the declarant is available as a witness ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mauro · State v. Bradley“had difficulty dealing with stress and in stressful situations his actions were more reflexive than reflective”
2 later decisions 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.