State v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. Patterson (1994), State v. Penley (1986)
72 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · State v. Powell · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Alston
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he thereby waives [the] motion ... made prior to the introduction of his evidence and cannot urge such prior motion as ground for appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Worley“required to permit the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the penetration had in fact occurred”
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.