State v. Arroyo’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Joyner (1993), State v. Fuller (1986)
45 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 Patterson v. New York · State v. Melchior · Robinson v. Unemployment Security Board of Review · State v. Brown · People v. Patterson
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in any affirmative or special defense, the burden of proof rests with the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Cohabitation ... includes many facets of married life in addition to sexual relations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Myers
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.