State v. Kulmac’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
293 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 295 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Figueroa (1995), State v. DeJesus (2008)
293 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 20 Cal. 3d 457 - People v. Thomas · State v. Esposito · State v. Falby · State v. Baldwin · State v. Ouellette
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 295 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sexual assault is a terribly brutal and emotionally damaging crime, especially where the victims are minors. This does not, however, justify the adoption of special rules allowing the state to introduce any evidence of prior sexual misconduct that it can dig up against the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Mohapatra
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.