State v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably 107 Wash. 2d 346 - State v. Knapstad (1986), State v. Hunwick (1984)
57 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 Burgess v. State · Ellis v. State · 243 So. 2d 587 - State v. Davis · 380 So. 2d 534 - State v. Fort · State v. Huggins
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permit the conclusion that the defendant could be found guilty, the motion must be denied.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The function of a `(c)(4)' motion to dismiss is to ascertain whether or not the facts which the State relies upon to constitute the crime charged, and on which it will offer evidence to prove it, do, as a matter of law, establish a prima facie case of guilt of the accused."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here are no material disputed facts and the undisputed facts do not establish a prima facie case of guilt against the defendant.”
2 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.