State v. Myrick’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Barts (1986), United States v. Bowden (1992)
5 federal appellate · 53 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. Powell · State v. Marshall Norman Hicks · State v. Accor · State v. Duboise · State v. Wilson
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, giving the State the benefit of all reasonable inferences.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rogers · In Re Dk““ [breaking is defined as any act of force, however slight, employed to effect an entrance through any usual or unusual place of ingress, whether open, partly open, or closed. A breaking may be actual or constructive. A defendant has made a constructive breaking when another person who is acting in concert with the defendant actually makes the opening. Acting in concert means that the defendant is present at the scene of the crime and acts together with another who does the acts necessary to constitute the crime pursuant to a common plan or purpose to commit the crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 14-54. Breaking or entering buildings generally. (a) Any person who breaks or enters any building with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein shall be punished as a Class H felon. (c) As used in this section, “building” shall be construed to include any dwelling, dwelling house, uninhabited house, building under construction, building within the curtilage of a dwelling house, and any other structure designed to house or secure within it any activity or property.”
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.