State v. Fish’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1999
6 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 Wolfs v. Challacombe · Pieper Ex Rel. Pieper v. Harmeyer · City of Des Moines v. BROOKS IN & FOR POLK CTY.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered to be a `record of any court proceedings,' and is obviously not under the control of the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Upon discharge from probation, if judgment has been deferred ... the court’s criminal record with reference to the deferred judgment shall be expunged. The record maintained by the supreme court administrator ... shall not be expunged. The court’s record shall not be expunged in any other circumstances.”
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.