State v. Mucci’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Watson (1973), Collopy v. Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary (1958)
2 district · 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 Michelson v. United States · Forbes v. Hubbard · Tomlinson v. United States · Blackwell v. State · Little v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“its evidential efficacy in the physical impossibility of the accused's guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence is always a relative term; it signifies a relation between two facts, the `factum probandum, or proposition to be established, and the `factum probans,' or material evidencing the proposition; all evidence must involve an inference from some fact to the proposition to be proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plea of `alibi' is not an affirmative defense in the strict, technical sense, but it is defensive in nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. RT
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.