State v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Ross (1994), State v. Mooney (1991)
45 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 Kahn v. Grant · In re Martin-Trigona · School Board of Nassau County, Florida, Et Al. v. Arline · State v. Morrill · State v. Talton
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court is required to balance the probative value against the prejudicial effect of [uncharged misconduct] evidence ... and to exclude the evidence unless the former outweighs the latter. ... We can find little, if any, probative value in the [uncharged misconduct evidence that was admitted in this case]. ... Although the trial court erred in admitting [that] evidence, we think the error was harmless ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.