State v. Merrick’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Morrisey (2009), State v. Martin (2001)
30 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. Flack · State v. Radi · State v. Delos Santos · State v. Mergenthaler · State v. Roullier
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The testimony of one witness is sufficient to prove a fact. ... Additionally, the weight and credibility of witnesses are exclusively the province of the trier of fact. In the event of conflicting evidence, it is within the province of the trier of fact to determine which will prevail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bailey
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.