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← 145 Vt. 554 - State v. Senecal

State v. Senecal’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
3
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Blow (1991), Morrisseau v. Fayette (1995)

42 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 Franks v. Delaware · United States v. Harrelson · State v. Baldwin · State v. Bishop · State v. Rollins

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

  1. “[i]f the rule were otherwise a trial judge would be tied to obvious errors even when, as here, the earlier rulings were made by a different judge. The trial judge would moreover be rendered helpless in the face of additional evidence or other considerations developing during trial of the case which might otherwise dictate a modification or a reversal of the preliminary rulings.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Bruno
  2. “Although a failure to object would not amount to a waiver of the claim where no new facts are adduced at trial, and the same judge presided at trial as decided the suppression motion, such was not the case here. The trial judge did not rule on either of the earlier motions, and so never had an opportunity to consider the defendant’s objection to the evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Jacques

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.