State v. Decorso’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Daniels (2002), State v. Thornton (2017)
70 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 State v. Menzies · State v. Thurman · State v. Ramirez · State v. Lafferty · State v. Shickles
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'tends to prove some fact that is material to the crime charged ... other than the defendant's propensity to commit crime'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bisner · State v. Balfour“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. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mead · State v. Bisner“evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
11 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.