State v. Fortin’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2020
23 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 West Virginia State Department of Tax & Revenue v. Internal Revenue Service · Keene Corp. v. United States · State v. Kelly · State of Arizona v. State of California · 125 Wash. 2d 24 - State v. Russell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) a statement contained in a writing made by a public official of an act done by the official or an act, condition, or event observed by the official if it was within the scope of the official’s duty either to perform the act reported or to observe the act, condition, or event reported and to make the written statement, or (B) statistical findings of a public official based upon a report of or an investigation of acts, conditions, or events, if it was within the scope of the official’s duty to make such statistical findings, unless the sources of information or other circumstances indicate that such statistical findings are not trustworthy. [N.J.R.E. 803(c)(8).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court's determination on the admissibility of defensive other-crimes evidence [is] `highly discretionary,' depending as it does on the weighing and balancing of the various Rule 403 factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] trial court's determination on the admissibility of evidence in general . . . is entitled to great deference and ordinarily should not be disturbed unless it is `wide of the mark.'”
1 later decision 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.