State v. Ledford’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably State v. Stokes (1987), Hajmm Co. v. House of Raeford Farms, Inc. (1991)
1 federal appellate · 88 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 Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · State v. Powell · State v. Ahearn · Williamson v. United States · State v. Wilkerson
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule that an expert may not testify that ... a particular legal conclusion or standard has or has not been met remains unchanged by the new Evidence Code, at least where the standard is a legal term of art which carries a specific legal meaning not readily apparent to the witness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is so dark that a person's face cannot be identified except by artificial light or moonlight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he elements of the crime of burglary in the first degree are: (1) the breaking (2) and entering (3) in the nighttime (4) into a dwelling house or a room used as a sleeping apartment (5) of another (6) which is actually occupied at the time of the offense (7) with the intent to commit a felony therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blyther
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.