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← 178 Mont. 67 - State v. Eagan

State v. Eagan’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Stringer (1995), State v. Gollehon (1993)

31 state decisions

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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 Kincaid v. Wade · Putro v. Baker · State v. Baugh · People v. Shaw · McDaniels v. McDaniels

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““. . . [I]f jury misconduct is shown tending to injure the defendant, prejudice to the defendant is presumed; however, the presumption is not absolute and may be rebutted by the use of testimony of the jurors to show facts which prove that prejudice or injury did not or could not occur . . .” [Citations omitted.]”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.