State v. Aakre’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Buck (2006), State v. Ferguson (2005)
59 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. Just · State v. Matt · State v. Jensen · State v. Riley · State v. Blain Southern
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 passage · from the majority“preventing the admission of uncharged conduct as circumstantial proof of charged conduct except where the uncharged conduct possesses `independent' or `special' probative value relevant to a non-character theory”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stout“[e]vidence of a person's character or a trait of character is not admissible for the purpose of proving action in conformity therewith on a particular occasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stout
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.