State v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Ramsey (2005), State v. Clark (1997)
32 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 County of Stutsman v. State Historical Society of North Dakota · State v. Micko · Knudson v. Director, North Dakota Department of Transportation · Filler v. Bragg · Crowston v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the court must look to the purpose for which the evidence is introduced; 2) the evidence of the prior act or acts must be substantially reliable or clear and convincing; and 3) in criminal cases, there must be proof of the crime charged which permits the trier of fact to establish the defendant’s guilt or innocence independently on the evidence presented, without consideration of the evidence of the prior acts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The longstanding common law rule on prior-act evidence is that it is inadmissible when it is evidence of “a wholly separate and independent crime” and is used to show a propensity to commit such acts. Rule 404(b) is an embodiment of this common law rule. Thus, Rule 404(b) only excludes evidence of other acts and crimes committed by the defendant when they are independent of the charged crime, and do not fit into the rule’s exceptions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Paul · Steinbach v. State“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. However, it may be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident ....”
2 later decisions 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.