State v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2024
1 district · 9 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 Davis v. Alaska · State v. True · 5 Va. App. 188 - Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth · 609 So. 2d 600 - Burns v. State · State v. Bazinet
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that the person acted in conformity therewith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. DeMass“it is highly probable the error did not affect the jury's verdict and the error was therefore harmless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tieman
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.