State v. Kinch’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 241 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 249 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Fair (2001), Smith v. Dixon (1994)
6 federal appellate · 241 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Anders v. California · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. · State v. Roseman · State v. Whitley
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 249 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pursuant to Anders , this Court must now determine from a full examination of all the proceedings whether the appeal is wholly frivolous. In carrying out this duty, we will review the legal points appearing in the record, transcript, and briefs, not for the purpose of determining their merits (if any) but to determine whether they are wholly frivolous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Pursuant to Anders , this Court must now determine from a full examination of all the proceedings whether the appeal is wholly frivolous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“fully examine the record on appeal for possible prejudicial error and ... determine whether counsel overlooked any meritorious issue”
2 later decisions 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.