State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably State v. Hines (1998), State v. Schiappa (1999)
53 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Ratchford v. Gay Lib · McClain v. United States · Briggs Transportation Co. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is within the discretion of the trial court to accept or to reject the proponent's representations regarding the unavailability of a declarant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] proponent's burden is to demonstrate a diligent and reasonable effort, not to do everything conceivable , to secure the witness' presence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.