State v. Trossman’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Rounds (2011), State v. Gonzales (2011)
29 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 County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · State v. Apodaca · State v. Parish · State v. Roybal · State v. Graham
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a [fact-finder] is certainly entitled to draw reasonable conclusions from the circumstantial evidence produced at trial, it must not be left to speculate in the absence of proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arias“undermine the factfinder's responsibility at trial, based on evidence adduced by the State, to find the ultimate facts beyond a reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. Varela“the [s]tate to prove the child's presence in a situation where harm was both probable and sufficiently grave to justify a criminal sanction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gonzales
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.