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State v. Berlin’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

68
cited by 68 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

66 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Hopkins v. Reeves (1998), State v. Berlin (1997)

66 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 Beck v. Alabama · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · Vasquez v. Hillery · 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman · 120 Wash. 2d 631 - State v. Benn

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

  1. “To establish that an offense is a lesser included offense, the rule is: first, each of the elements of the lesser offense must be a necessary element of the offense charged; second, the evidence in the case must support an inference that the lesser crime was committed.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]he defendant may be found guilty of an offense the commission of which is necessarily included within that with which he is charged in the indictment or information.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “a clear showing that an established rule is incorrect and harmful.”
    3 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.