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Tyre v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
6
states following
January 2015
most recently cited

42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably State v. Salamon (2008), Skinner v. State (1990)

42 state decisions

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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 Beard v. State · State v. Taylor · Cook v. State · Shantz v. State · State v. Lynch

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It has long been our law that the jury is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and responsible for resolving conflicts in the testimony.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Washington v. State · Turner v. State
  2. “(1) In the course of the offense he inflicts serious physical, mental or emotional injury upon the victim, or (2) The victim was not the defendant’s voluntary social companion on the occasion of the crime and had not previously permitted him sexual contact.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Simmons v. State · 173 W. Va. 720 - State v. Wyer
  3. ““A person is guilty of kidnapping in the second degree when he unlawfully restrains another person with any of the following purposes: ****** (4) To inflict physical injury upon him, or to violate him or abuse him sexually; ... ****** and the actor voluntarily releases the victim, alive, unharmed and in a safe place prior to trial.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Simmons 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.