State v. Pike’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2003
12 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. Stone · State v. Levesque · State v. Allen · Younie v. State · Brine 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““that the refusal of a presiding Justice to focus upon circumstantial evidence as uniquely subject to a ‘negative-exclusion’ evaluation may well be an avoidance, rather than the commission, of reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“precautionary additional clarification” of the meaning of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Pike, Me., 306 A.2d 145, 149-50 (1973). Our more recent decisions make clear that the”
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.