State v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State v. Mahkuk (2007), Carter v. State (2003)
2 federal appellate · 30 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. Swain · Eley v. State · State v. Wiley · State v. Villalon · State v. Hudson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In State v. Wiley, 295 Minn. 411, 421 , 205 N.W.2d 667, 675 (1973), we stated the general rule that a criminal defendant’s judicial admission or offer to stipulate did not necessarily take away the state’s right to offer evidence on a point but that “[cjases may arise where unduly prejudicial evidence, which is without relevance beyond the defendant’s judicial admission, should not be received.” 205 N.W.2d at 675 . The reason for the general rule is that a defendant should not be able to unilaterally control the issue of the need for relevant evidence by offering to stipulate, “particularly where the evidence sought to be excluded would bear in any way upon any other issues not covered by the stipulation.” 2 D. Louisell & C. Mueller, Federal Evidence § 126 at 27 (1978). * * ⅝ # # # Minn.R.Evid. 40.4(b) deals with the admission of other-crime evidence to prove relevant facts distinct from the general propensity of the accused to commit crimes. Rule 403 is the general balancing rule that trial courts must follow in deciding whether to admit relevant evidence that carries with it a danger of unfair prejudice. We believe that generally in a prosecution for being a felon in possession of a weapon the defendant should be permitted to remove the issue of whether he is a convicted felon by stipulating to that fact. In the vast majority of such cases the potential of the evidence for unfair prejudice clearly outweighs its probative value. However, the door should be left open so that ”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen · State v. Berkelman
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.