State v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Zuniga (1987), State v. Grooms (2000)
64 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Leon · Schmerber v. State of California · Harrington v. California
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]enalizing the officer for the magistrate's error, rather than his own, cannot logically contribute to the deterrence of Fourth Amendment violations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`cool state of blood,' without legal provocation, and ... to accomplish some unlawful purpose. (Citation omitted.) The intent to kill must arise from `a fixed determination previously formed after weighing the matter.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quesinberry“to apply the rule [in that case] would not serve to discourage police misconduct and would only defeat justice for no good reason.”
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.