State v. Alva’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1987
22 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 Robson v. Thomas · State v. Williams
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the state is not required to prove a motive for the crime, if without this the evidence is sufficient to show that the act was done by the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brito
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.