State v. Massengill’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Chavez (2009), State v. Graham (2005)
2 district · 42 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Idaho v. Wright · Griffin v. United States · Luce v. United States · White v. Illinois
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`imprudent and possibly negligent' conduct were sufficient to expose a care giver to criminal liability for child endangerment, `undoubtedly the majority of parents in this county would be guilty of child endangeringat least for acts of similar culpability.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Chavez“'[UJnlike the common law rule, [Rule 11-803(D)] does not require inquiry into the patient's motive in making the statement, so long as the statements were relied upon by the physician.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.