State v. Irick’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 273 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably State v. Powell (1980), State v. Jackson (1983)
4 federal appellate · 273 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 Ex parte Lange · Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · State v. Vestal · State v. Covington · State v. Cutler
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that there may be other reasonable explanations for defendant's conduct does not render the instruction improper.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) that they are of pure blood, and of a stock characterized by acuteness of scent and power of discrimination; (2) that they possess these qualities, and have been accustomed and trained to pursue the human track; (3) that they have been found by experience reliable in such pursuit; (4) and that in the particular case they were put on the trail of the guilty party, which was pursued and followed under such circumstances and in such way as to afford substantial assurance, or permit a reasonable inference, of identification.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Article 14 of Chapter 15A applies only to suspects and accused persons before arrest, and persons formally charged and arrested, who have been released from custody pending trial. The statute does not apply to an in custody accused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Welch · State v. Carter
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.