State v. Curcio’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably State v. Little (1960), State v. Sullivan (1964)
37 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 People v. Savvides · State v. D'Ippolito · State v. Spruill · Trinity County Lumber Co. v. Denham · 154 Pa. Super. 410 - Commonwealth v. Mulroy
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ There were too many attempts by counsel to approach this proper avenue of inquiry to indicate that the mere phrasing of the question was improper or insufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ponthier
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.