State v. Bessenecker’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2018
24 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 Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Idaho · 29 Cal. 3d 733 - People v. Murtishaw · 450 So. 2d 621 - State v. Jackson · American States Insurance Co. v. Estate of Tollari
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the legislature has set a tone of caution against the dissemination of criminal history data except as specified. The legislature restricted the distribution of such data to an exclusive group of agencies and departments, and then provided for its release only under specified conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson“[A] trial judge will have discretionary authority to permit defense access to jury records and reports of investigations available to the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[C]onsiderations of fairness and judicial control over the jury selection process requires”
1 later decision 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.