Denton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1995
6 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 Crooker v. California · Smith v. State · 19 Ill. App. 3d 360 - People v. Burch · Dooley v. Commonwealth · Farmer v. Commonwealth
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As far as decisions directly touching the question to be annotated are concerned, an almost tomb-like silence is to be found on whether there is any presumption, or where the burden of proof lies, as to the accuracy of scientific and mechanical instruments used to measure speed, temperature, time, and the like.” 21 A.L.R.2d 1200 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Denton v. State““Any peace officer having reason to believe that any vehicle herein described or the load thereon is unlawful is authorized to stop, measure and weigh the same on any public highway by means of ;portable or stationary scales .. . .” (Emphasis added.) IC 9-8-1-17 (Burns Code Ed. 1973)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Denton v. State
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.