State v. Betts’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Wolfgang v. Mid-America Motorsports, Inc. (1997), State v. Gordon (1976)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Tucker v. Lower · State v. Calvert · Adrian v. Elmer · State v. Kliewer · State v. Custer
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To sustain its case under this statute it was incumbent on the state to prove two elements: first, an unintentional killing; and second, that appellant was at the time either engaged in the commission of a misdemeanor or was operating his car in a wanton manner. . . .” (pp. 274-275.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Makin“the jury would have had to find that [the victim's] conduct was the sole cause of her death-that appellant's drunkenness had nothing to do with it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wilson
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.