State v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably 31 Cal. 3d 18 - People v. Shirley (1982), State v. McQueen (1978)
41 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Leon v. Klinger · State v. Whittemore · State v. Mayfield · Crocker v. Weathers · Johnson Ex Rel. Herrington v. Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is true that the State need not prove the exact date set forth in the indictment unless time is an essential element of the offense or is made a party [sic] of the description of it, the State should not be allowed to prove a different date than that set forth in the indictment, where defendant relies upon the defense of alibi, unless the defendant is held to have had knowledge that the State would attempt to prove a different date upon trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“testimony as to the results of hypnotic examination is not admissible if offered for the truth of the matter asserted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans
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.