State v. Ligon’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 196 N.C. App. 458 - State v. Osorio (2009), State v. King (1996)
29 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 Ohio v. Gallagher · State v. Coffey · Fisher v. Oklahoma · State v. Fulcher · International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 406 v. Guidry
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Other crimes, wrongs, or acts. - Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake, entrapment or accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a fair trial, free of prejudicial error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Malachi
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.