State v. Bernatchez’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1982
3 federal appellate · 8 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. Dipietrantonio · State v. Field · State v. Wheeler
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the jury’s responsibility to decide to what extent, if any, her [the prosecutrix’] testimony and any pre-trial statements conflicted and to accept or reject any explanation offered by her The evidence justified the jury’s conclusion of guilt and the jury finding is not to be disturbed under the Field and Wheeler holdings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McFarland
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.