State v. Van’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Vasquez (2006), State v. Aldaco (2006)
42 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Lawrence v. Texas · Bowers v. Hardwick · 40 Cal. 3d 391 - In Re Stankewitz
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recognized that “liberty gives substantial protection to adult persons in deciding how to conduct their private lives in matters pertaining to sex” and held that the Texas statute [at issue] furthered “no legitimate state interest which can justify its intrusion into the personal and private life of the individual.” Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. at 572, 578 . The Court noted that as a “general rule,” government should not attempt to define the meaning or set the boundaries of a personal relationship “absent injury to a person or abuse of an institution the law protects.” 539 U.S. at 567 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Favorable evidence is material, and constitutional error results from its suppression by the State, if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different. ... A reasonable probability of a different result is accordingly shown when the State’s evidentiary suppression undermines confidence in the outcome of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lykens
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.