22 Utah 2d 257 - State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably State v. Thurman (1993), Leasure v. State (1973)
39 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brinegar v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Draper v. United States · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Concededly, evidence of other crimes is not admissible if the purpose is to disgrace the defendant as a person of evil character with a propensity to commit crime and thus likely to have committed the crime charged. However, if the evidence has relevancy to explain the circumstances surrounding the instant crime, it is admissible for tliat purpose; and the fact that it may tend to connect the defendant with another crime will not render it incompetent. [Id.] '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“full inquiry into the facts relating to the issues”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tanner
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.