State v. Vukasin’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Rosling (2008), State v. Favel (2015)
2 federal appellate · 54 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. Weeks · State v. Herrman · State v. Brister · State v. Martel · State v. Turnsplenty
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]irect evidence is not necessary to establish the elements of a criminal offense. A criminal conviction may be based entirely on circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Michelotti“preserve an objection for appeal provided the objecting party makes the basis for his objection clear to the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ellison“failed to provide the District Court with the opportunity to rule on the admissibility of evidence and to correct itself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ellison
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.