State v. Levan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. Call (1998), State v. Barnes (1993)
105 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 Michigan v. Long · Hoffa v. United States · United States v. White · Lopez v. United States · Lewis 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence of flight may be considered by you, together with all other facts and circumstances in this case, in determining whether the combined circumstances amount to an admission or show a consciousness of guilt. However, proof of this circumstance is not sufficient in itself to establish [Defendant's guilt.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“'some evidence in the record reasonably supporting the theory that defendant fled after commission of the crime charged.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mere evidence that defendant left the scene of the crime is not enough to support an instruction on flight. There must also be some evidence that defendant took steps to avoid apprehension.”
5 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.