State v. Halverson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2000
8 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 Curley v. United States · United States v. Knife · State v. Hoenscheid · State v. Gallegos · State v. Blakey
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his evidence, while it might permit conjecture and speculation as to what was `most likely' to occur, is too tenuous to support a verdict beyond a reasonable doubt that [Halverson] intended to commit an assault in attempting to enter the trailer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holzer“sufficiently compelling or persuasive to support a finding beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant intended to commit an assault in the course of the attempted break-in.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holzer“[t]he determination of the sufficiency of the evidence ... `may depend upon the difference between pure speculation and legitimate inference from proven facts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holzer
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.