Merchant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
February 2025
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pinell v. State · 2017 Ark. App. 49 - Holland v. State · Wells v. State · 2013 Ark. App. 147 - Winn v. Bonds · 2011 Ark. App. 348 - Bryant 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] motion merely stating that the evidence is insufficient does not preserve for appellate purposes issues relating to a specific deficiency, such as insufficient proof on the elements of the offense[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds 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.