Derrickson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Capano v. State (2001), Dutton v. State (1982)
26 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 Cady v. Dombrowski · Bantum v. State · Edwards v. State · State v. Carey · State v. Long
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he requirement that the statement be made under circumstances absent suspicion refers to the circumstances surrounding the declaration itself, not the contemplated action related to the declaration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter““We are satisfied from our review of the facts that only two verdicts were permissible: guilty of murder in the first degree or not guilty of any crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Derrickson v. State“the focus is upon the motive for making the statement, not the nature of the planned activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter
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.