State v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Freeney (1994), 594 So. 2d 292 - Fenelon v. State (1992)
35 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 11 Wash. App. 566 - State v. Jefferson · Smith v. City of Greenville · Town of Hartsville v. Munger
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of flight tends to be only marginally probative as to the ultimate issue of guilt or innocence. The interest of justice is perhaps best served if this matter is reserved for counsel's argument, with little if any comment by the bench.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall · Smalls v. State“At best, [flight instructions] merely sanction the use of circumstantial evidence. At worst, they place undue emphasis upon that evidence. Instructions on circumstantial evidence should be expressed in the abstract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marsh
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.