State v. Vargas’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Bluff (2002), 2010 UT App 396 - State v. King (2010)
35 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 California v. Green · Huddleston v. United States · State v. Dunn · United States v. Stevens · United States v. Pedro M. Gonzalez-Sanchez, United States of America v. Carlos Latorre, United States of America v. Manuel Parrilla-Marquez
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Appellant] has the burden of showing ... [that] 'absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome for the appellant.' ") (quoting Dunn, 850 P.2d at 1208-09 ); State v. Litherland, 2000 UT 76 ,- ¶ 8, 12 P.3d 92 ("[Appellant] bears the bur den of establishing that the trial court committed plain error.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Wle will not reverse [the] trial court for committing harmless error,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spillers
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.