State v. Eldred’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Falcon v. State (1997), Narum v. Faxx Foods, Inc. (1999)
29 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Berkemer v. McCarty · Oregon v. Mathiason · California v. Beheler · Thompson v. Keohane
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person’s good faith belief that conduct does not constitute a crime is an affirmative defense if he acted in reasonable reliance upon a statement of the law contained in: 1. A statute or other enactment. 2. A judicial decision, opinion, order, or judgment. 3. An administrative order or grant of permission. 4.An official interpretation of the public servant or body charged by law with responsibility for the interpretation, administration, or enforcement of the law defining the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kleppe“the willful culpability level will not be read into other chapters unless the legislature specifically states as such”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re KP
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.