State v. Mendiola’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
April 1994
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Cott · State v. Allan Banks Gibb III · State v. McDaniel · State v. Conner · State v. Walsh
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exclusion of evidence of other crimes is based on the view that it is ordinarily not relevant. The exceptions are built around situations where the prior crime is relevant, not because the prior act tends to prove defendant is a bad person who has the capacity to commit bad acts, but because the prior act tends to establish an element in the pending prosecution. The prior crime, if relevant under one of the exceptions, is admissible so long as its probative value outweighs its prejudicial effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson
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.