State v. Featherman’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2004
14 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 State v. Rose · State v. Johnson · State v. Tostado · State v. Marahrens · Viliborghi v. State of Arizona
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the present case the evidence of the defendant's hostility to his victim demonstrated by the baseball bat incident . . . is directly relevant to his intent the night she was killed. Intent is frequently shown by evidence of other criminal acts of the same character."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State · Stewart v. State““Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts. — Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident."”
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.