State v. Mejia’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Prioleau (1995), Westport Taxi Service, Inc. v. Westport Transit District (1995)
125 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 · Patterson v. New York · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · State v. Sivri
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of any one of [these four] conditions, the defendant's claim * will fail. The appellate tribunal is free, therefore, to respond to the defendant's claim by focusing on which-ever condition is most relevant in the particular circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jan G.
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.