State v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Derbyshire (2009), State v. Flores (2010)
40 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 Opper v. United States · Smith v. United States · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · Hayes v. Lockhart
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Declaration, act, or omission which is a part of the transaction. Where the declaration, act, or omission forms part of a transaction which is itself the fact in dispute or evidence of that fact, such declaration, act, or omission is evidence as part of the transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Guill · Evert v. Swick“The better practice is to abandon the use of the phrase [res gestae] altogether and to, instead, use the specific rule of evidence or statute that applies to the particular factual situation presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Kemp · State v. Rose“[i]n some states, res gestae is given an even broader scope to include not only a- spontaneous utterance made before, during, or after the commission of a crime, but also real or demonstrative evidence relevant to the crime charged, such as a torn dress of a prosecutrix to show that she had been raped; testimony by a police officer or other witness as to what he heard or observed before, during, or after the commission of the crime; all that occurred at the time and place of the crime, or immediately before or after the crime if causally related thereto; a declaration of intent by the victim; a statement, confession, or admission by the defendant; or a declaration or conduct of a eoconspirator or accomplice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fetelee
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.