Knapp v. Martone’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Roscoe (1996), State Ex Rel. Romley v. Superior Court (1995)
37 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 Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · State v. Knapp · State v. Warner · Kobold v. Aetna Life Insurance
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If trial courts are permitted to make ad hoc exceptions to the constitutional rule based upon the perceived exigencies of each case, the harm the Victims’ Bill of Rights was designed to ameliorate will, instead, be increased. Permitting such ad hoc exceptions will encourage defendants or others to assert that the person designated as the victim should, instead, be considered a suspect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is important to emphasize that Arizona courts must follow and apply the plain language of this new amendment [Victims' Bill of Rights] to our constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Z.W. v. Foster“... a person against whom the criminal offense has been committed ... except if the person is in custody for an offense or is the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roscoe
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.