State v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Wiegand v. State (2001), State v. Torres (2004)
25 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 Reese v. United States · Patel v. OMH Medical Center, Inc. · Abel v. Tisdale · 204 W. Va. 547 - State v. Hedrick · 189 N.J. Super. 172 - State v. Weissenburger
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“''The court may, in its discretion, vacate the order of forfeiture and exonerate the bond where good cause has been shown for: a. the defendant's failure to appear, or b. the bondsman's failure to return the defendant to custody within ninety (90) days."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. STATE v. DURFEY · State v. Torres“(a) whether the defendant has been returned to custody and, if so, whether the bondsman's efforts assisted in the defendant's return; 8 (b) the nature and extent of the bondsman's efforts to locate and return. the defendant to custody; (c) the length of the delay caused by the defendant's non-appearance; (d) the cost and inconvenience to the government in regaining control of the defendant; (e) the stage of the proceedings at the time of defendant's non-appearance; and (£) the public interest and necessity of effectuating defendant's appearance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Dliscretion is abused when a trial court makes a clearly erroneous conclusion and judgment contrary to reason and evidence, when it exercises its discretion to an end or purpose not justified by, and clearly contrary to, reason and evidence, and when discretion is employed on untenable grounds or for untenable reasons, or where its exercise is manifestly unreasonable.”
3 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.