Molina v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2010
19 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 Postell v. State · State v. Johnson · State v. Niesbbalski
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““where ... the inescapable inference from the testimony is that a non-testifying [declarant] has furnished the [witness] with evidence of the defendant’s guilt, the testimony is hearsay, and the defendant’s right of confrontation is defeated, notwithstanding that the actual statements made by the non-testifying [declarant] are not repeated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. FARINACCI 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.