State v. Virgin’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Levin (2006), State v. Robbins (2009)
49 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. Thurman · State v. Brake · Mineral County v. STATE, DEPT. OF CONSERV. · State v. Anderson · State v. Clark
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tlhe prosecution has the burden of producing believable evidence of all the elements of the crime charged, but this evidence need not be capable of supporting a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] showing of 'probable cause' entails only the presentation of 'evidence sufficient to support a reasonable belief that the defendant committed the charged crime.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Graham · State v. Ramirez“free to decline bindover where the facts presented by the prosecution provide no more than a basis for speculation-as opposed to providing a basis for a reasonable belief”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Graham · State v. Ramirez
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.