Vitek v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Harris v. State (1993)
25 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 White v. United States · Dorsey v. State · Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman · Williams v. United States · Corens v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is not to say that evidence of an accused’s financial situation is never admissible. However, we agree with the appellant that in order for such evidence to be admissible, there must be something more than a ‘general suspicion’ that because a person is poor, he is going to commit a crime. We hold that while normally it is not allowable to show impecuniousness of an accused, such evidence would be admissible under special circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘assume that wealth exerts a greater attraction on the poor than on the rich.’ To do so would ‘effectively establish a two-tiered standard of justice and demolish pro tanto the presumption of innocence.’ Our system of justice and its constitutional guarantees are simply too fragile to permit this type of unfounded character assassination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.