State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Braxton (2000), State v. Bishop (1997)
132 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. Coffey · State v. Brown · State v. Syriani · State v. Murray · Campbell v. Greer
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that the witness has been convicted of a felony, or of a Class A1, Class 1, or Class 2 misdemeanor, shall be admitted if elicited from the witness or established by public record during cross-examination or thereafter.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he admissibility of evidence under [Rule 404(b)] is guided by two further constraints similarity and temporal proximity [of the acts].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“For example, when the defendant “opens the door” by misstating his criminal record or the facts of the crimes or actions, or when he has used his criminal record to create an inference favorable to himself, the prosecutor is free to cross-examine him about details of those prior crimes or actions.”
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.