Kunselman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Dixon v. State (2019), Lovato v. State (2010)
28 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 O'BOYLE v. State · Campbell v. State · Ochoa v. State · Davila v. State · Vassar v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assess the witnesses' credibility, weigh the evidence and make the necessary inferences, deductions and conclusions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State · Brown v. State“[A] conditional plea of guilty or nolo contendere, while providing a mechanism for appellate review, does not provide carte blanche permission for an appellant to present any and all arguments on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State · Pier v. State“allows a defendant to plead guilty while reserving the right to seek review on appeal of any specified pretrial motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Tucker v. State
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.