State v. Salz’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Whipper (2001), State v. Copas (2000)
128 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · State v. Golding · Santoni v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recognizing the difficulty in proving by direct evidence that an accused subjectively realized and chose to ignore a substantial risk ... we have long held that the state of mind amounting to recklessness ... may be inferred from conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taupier“the state must prove every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which [the defendant] is charged beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e have long recognized that a defendant's state of mind can usually be proven only by circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taupier
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.