State v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Golphin (2000), State v. Stager (1991)
2 federal appellate · 141 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 McCleskey v. Kemp · Lockhart v. McCree · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · McDougall v. North Carolina · Moore v. United States
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`some unusual facts present in both crimes or particularly similar acts which would indicate that the same person committed both.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“rise to the level of the unique and bizarre.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rather, the similarities simply must tend to support a reasonable inference that the same person committed both the earlier and later acts.”
3 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.