State v. Britt’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. Braswell · State v. Coffey · Howerton v. Arai Helmet, Ltd. · State v. Hamilton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Relevant evidence is that which has any tendency, however slight , to make the existence of any fact of consequence to the determination of the action more or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“support[ed] the State's theory that defendant had a financial motive to kill his wife.”
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.