State v. Varner’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably State v. Feger (1960), State v. Chester (1969)
36 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 State v. Hepperman · State v. Shawley · State v. Shuls · State v. Richetti · State v. Moore
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the killing of two people is all a part of one transaction the evidence as to both deaths is competent, not because it shows another crime but because the single transaction circumstantially bears upon and establishes deliberation, if not motive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lindsey“the facts are so intimately related and the crimes so nearly concurrent that proof of one cannot well be made without a showing of the facts tending to establish the other,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lindsey“under such circumstances as to constitute one single continuous accomplishment of a common design,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lindsey
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.