State v. Littlefield’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Thompson v. State (2006), State v. Ayer (2006)
26 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 United States v. Powell · United States v. Park · State v. Ball · Perez v. Jones · 46 Cal. 3d 833 - People v. Crandell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is proper to instruct on flight where it is reasonable to infer [guilt] from the evidence presented.”); State v. Littlefield, 152 N.H. 331 , 876 A.2d 712, 716 (2005) (“An instruction on flight is properly given if the jury could reasonably infer that the defendant’s flight reflected consciousness of guilt, and flight requires neither the physical act of running nor the reaching of a faraway haven.”); State v. Mann, 132 NJ. 410, 625 A.2d 1102, 1107 (1993) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. State“The jury is presumed to follow the instructions given by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Owen Labrie
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.