State v. Cardinal’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Bruyette (1992), State v. Forbes (1993)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 State v. Parker · State v. Giroux · In Re Nash
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant’s initiation of a plot to kill the victim and her fiance was admitted as relevant to defendant’s guilty state of mind and the existence of a continuing plan or scheme. Whether defendant himself ever took his own talk of murder seriously is not so much the issue as the fact that he would “mouth off” about killing [the victim] and her fiance. . . . Whatever unfair prejudice may have been engendered was substantially outweighed by its probative worth. It was not an abuse of discretion to admit it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pellerin“it still 'may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patten
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.