State v. Kirsch’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Melcher (1996), 178 N.C. App. 330 - State v. Pickard (2006)
49 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 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Schwalb · State v. Sands · People v. Russo · State v. Bassett · State v. Marcotte
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that the person 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lesnick · State v. Monroe“[ejvidence of other bad acts is only admissible if relevant for a purpose other than to prove the defendant’s character or disposition, if there is clear proof the defendant committed the other acts, and if the prejudice to the defendant does not substantially outweigh the probative value of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Newcomb · State v. Haley“a common-sense inference about the longevity of child pornography for the sexual abuser of children may reasonably be drawn from the nature of the items themselves”
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.