State v. Belcher’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2016
8 federal appellate · 2 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. Mosley · State v. Varela · State v. Henry · State v. Parker · State v. Embree
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t [was] clear from the evidence that appellant had the intent to steal the two pair of jeans when he put them on and then put his own trousers over them in the fitting room. The requisite intent to commit burglary may be formed after a person enters a store in all innocence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an act of a person who enters or remains on premises when such person's intent for so entering or remaining is not licensed, authorized or otherwise privileged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Belcher v. Crist“basic rule for determining vagueness is whether the offense is defined in terms that people of average intelligence can understand”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Belcher v. Crist
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.