State v. Neale’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Geesa v. State (1991), United States v. Pforzheimer (1987)
2 federal appellate · 52 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 Katz v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Oliver v. United States · Hester v. United States · United States v. California
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we said in Derouchie and reaffirm here, “ [t] here is only one standard of proof for criminal convictions, whether the evidence is direct, circumstantial, or a combination of both. The prosecution has the burden of proving each element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor“may not rely upon improper or inaccurate data in reaching its sentencing decision.”
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.