State v. Link’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2012
4 federal appellate · 17 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 State v. Spreigl · State v. Billstrom · United States v. Clemons · State v. Mitchell · State v. Allesi
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“antipathy * * * to evidence of crimes other than that for which the defendant is on trial, and the restrictions and procedural safeguards we have established to safeguard the defendant from unfair prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kilker“The trial judge is in the best position to decide what instructions are necessary to the jury’s decision, and [the trial judge’s] discretion must be respected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones“[I]f there is ever to be finality in the criminal justice system, a harmless error doctrine is essential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re RJE
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.