State v. Mecier’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably State v. Bailey (1984), State v. Rollins (1982)
34 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Barker v. Wingo · Rodriguez v. Lash · State v. Morrill · State v. Kasper
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[In Hohman and Lapham] the evidence bore directly on the essential elements of premeditation and malice. In the case at bar, the evidence did not directly bear on such essential elements of the crime alleged. The cross-examination here reached only the factual basis for the psychiatrist’s opinion .... In order to attack the credibility of the doctor’s opinion, the State elicited the factual basis of it and attempted to prove its inaccuracy. This cross-examination was a proper method of impeaching a psychiatrist’s testimony. There was no violation of the physician-patient privilege.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valley
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.