State v. Duvall’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Eason (1994), State v. Stokes (1983)
45 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 Calloway v. Ford Motor Company · State v. Yoes · State v. Neas · State v. McClure · State v. Fearing
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the rule were otherwise, the normal reviewing function of appellate courts would be usurped, and, in some instances, the orderly trial process could be converted into a chaotic, protracted affair as one party attempted to shop around for a more favorable ruling from another superior court judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sufficient showing of a substantial change in circumstances . . . which presently warrants a different or new disposition of the matter[,]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“one superior court judge ordinarily may not overrule a prior judgment of another superior court judge in the same case on the same issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.