State v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Square (1971), State v. Thompson (1975)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Wenzler v. Pitchess · Perez 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of the competency of an expert is his knowledge of • thp subject about which he is called upon to. express an opinion, and before any. witness can give evidence as an expert his competency so to testify must have been established to the satisfaction of the court.” La.R.S. 15:466.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Foster · State v. Square“". . . photographs which are calculated to arouse the sympathies or prejudices of the jury are properly excluded if they are entirely irrelevant or not substantially necessary to show material facts or conditions." State v. Alexander, 252 La. 564, 573 , 211 So.2d 650, 653 (1968).”
1 later decision 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.