State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably State v. Anderson (2005), State v. Stuard (1993)
50 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 Scharffe v. Perkins · Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. · McDougall v. North Carolina · State v. Jeffers · State v. Arnett
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ecause of the risk of improper use, the trial judge has a special obligation to insure that [the] probative value of the evidence for the purpose offered is sufficiently great in the context of the case to warrant running that risk. The discretion of the trial judge under Rule jOS to exclude otherwise relevant evidence because of the risk of prejudice should find its most frequent application in this area”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Salazar · State v. Garcia“A person is justified in threatening or using both physical force and deadly physical force against another if and to the extent the person reasonably believes that physical force or deadly physical force is immediately necessary to prevent... sexual assault under section 13-1406.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Arizona courts have long held that a murder defendant who defends on the basis of justification should be permitted to introduce evidence of specific acts of violence by the deceased if the defendant either observed the acts himself or was informed of the acts before the homicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.