State v. Acquin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2008
21 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · State v. Darwin
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The evidence sought may be of material aid in determining whether the defendant committed the offense charged; and “(2) The evidence sought cannot practicably be obtained from other sources.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ostroski
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.