State v. Crafts’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Sivri (1994), State v. Robinson (1993)
139 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 Murphy v. Florida · Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Delli Paoli v. United States · Beck v. Washington
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . so inflammatory or inaccurate that it create[s] a trial atmosphere "utterly corrupted by press coverage,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Intent is typically established by circumstantial evidence ... Such circumstantial evidence may include inferences drawn from the conduct of the accused. The knowing and volitional conduct of a defendant is probative of his mental state insofar as he may be found to have intended the ordinary and natural consequences of his acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury could not properly have inferred an intent to commit murder from the mere fact of the death of the victim, [or] even from her death at the hands of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Otto
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.