State v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002 · most notably Yates v. Evatt (1991), Yates v. Aiken (1988)
28 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Enmund v. Florida · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc.
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.
“... an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellow man, or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morris“We are of the opinion that the trial judge correctly and precisely determined the applicable law and charged it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yates v. Evatt
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.