State v. Weinstein’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2014
16 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Kolender v. Lawson · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Company
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits theft by extortion by knowingly obtaining or seeking to obtain property or services by means of a threat to ... expose a secret or an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject anyone to hatred, contempt or ridicule or to impair his credit or business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.