State v. Luke’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Cargill v. State (1986), Ingram v. State (1984)
78 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 Clements v. State · Wynne v. State · Cox v. State · McClung v. State · Morgan v. State
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When one is on trial charged with the commission of a crime, proof of a distinct, independent and separate offense is never admissible, unless there is some logical connection between the two, from which it can be said that proof of the one tends to establish the other. This is the general rule, but there are some exceptions to it, as when the extraneous crime forms part of the res gestae ... or may bear upon the question of the identity of the accused, or articles connected with the offense[.] 24”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“proper evidence to be submitted to the jury to be weighed by them for what they are worth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State“all the circumstances connected with [a defendant's] arrest”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woolfolk v. State
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.