State v. Prestridge’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
245 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 245 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Dorthey (1993), State v. Hogan (1985)
245 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · 360 So. 2d 500 - State v. Drew · 385 So. 2d 248 - State v. Byrd
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 245 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence admitted, to the lack of evidence, to conclusion of fact that the state or defendant may draw therefrom, and to the law applicable to the case.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wormser · State v. Palmer“Res gestae are events speaking for themselves under the immediate pressure of the occurrence, through the instructive, impulsive and spontaneous words and acts of the participants, and not the words of the participants when narrating the events. What forms any part of the res gestae is always admissible in evidence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n the prosecution of sex offenses the better rule is that the original complaint of a young child is admissible when the particular facts and circumstances of the case indicate that the complaint was the product of a shocking episode and not a fabrication.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Herrin · State v. Cameron
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.