State v. Eason’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Spigarolo (1989), State v. Reid (1984)
137 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 North Carolina v. Alford · McCarthy v. United States · Connally v. General Construction Co. · United States v. Harriss · Smith v. Goguen
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“References to judicial opinions involving the statute, the common law, legal dictionaries, or treatises may be necessary to ascertain the statute's meaning to determine if it gives fair warning,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a plea not supported by an adequate factual basis is obtained in violation of due process and is, therefore, void.”
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.