State v. Vainikos’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably State v. Holt (1980), State v. Stuart (1970)
26 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. Dowling · State v. Edwards · State v. Bailey · State v. Bowdry · State v. Dill
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q. Officer, after you placed Vainikos under arrest and found ... the pistol, did you ask him why he was carrying it? A. Yes, sir. MR. KOSTER: I have no further questions. MR. LEE: No questions. MR. KOSTER: Did he give you an answer, Officer? A. He refused to make a statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smart““However, if you do not find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt each and all of the foregoing, then you must find the defendant not guilty . . .” (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holt
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.