Phagan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Powell v. State (1998), Chase v. State (2009)
66 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · New York v. Ferber · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unlawful for any person knowingly to employ, use, persuade, induce, entice, or coerce any minor to engage in or assist any other person to engage in any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual medium depicting such conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Berry v. State“a videotape is admissible where the operator of the machine which produced it, or one who personally witnessed the events recorded testifies that the videotape accurately portrayed what the witness saw take place at the time the events occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hudson v. State“difficulty inherent in authenticating a photo, motion picture, videotape or audiotape when an authenticating witness was unavailable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hudson v. State
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.