State v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Francis (1989), State v. Stanislaw (1990)
4 federal appellate · 114 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 Barker v. Wingo · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Henderson v. Kibbe · Santoni v. United States · Citizens & Southern National Bank v. United States
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that the intent of the statute is that the records not be subject to disclosure except for statutory purposes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway in a careless or negligent manner .... (c) A person who, while engaged in the violation of any law, ordinance or regulation applying to the operation or use of a motor vehicle or to the regulation of traffic, causes, as a result of the violation, the death of any person shall be fined not more than $3,000.00, or imprisoned not less than one year nor more than 15 years, or both. The provisions of this section do not limit or restrict prosecutions for manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dodge“(a) Reputation or Opinion. — In all cases in which evidence of character or a trait of character of a person is admissible, proof may be made by testimony as to reputation or by testimony in the form of an opinion. On cross-examination, inquiry is allowable into relevant specific instances of conduct. (b) Specific Instances of Conduct. — In cases in which character or a trait of character of a person is an essential element of a charge, claim, or defense, proof may also be made of specific instances of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Newell
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.