State v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Grega (1998), State v. Savva (1992)
44 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Alford · Brown v. Ohio · United States v. Jackson · Illinois v. Vitale
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n offense is a lesser-included offense of another if it is composed of some, but not all, elements of the greater offense and does not have any element not included in the greater offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Memoli · In Re Miller
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.