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State v. Vargas’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
4
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Hallenbeck (2005), State v. Ashness (1983)

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 Mincey v. Arizona · Alderman v. United States · Spano v. People of the State of New York · State v. Quattrocchi · LaFrance v. Bohlinger

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

  1. ““[i]t is now well settled in this jurisdiction * * * that a party who is surprised by his own witness’s testimony may be permitted, in the discretion of the trial justice, to confront the witness with prior inconsistent statements. * * * The rule that a party may not ordinarily impeach his own witness may also be relaxed even in the absence of an allegation and finding of surprise when, in the view of the trial justice, the interests of justice so require.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Burke · State v. Gomes
  2. “the individual alleging the deprivation must be the one whose rights have been violated by the unlawful governmental conduct, not a defendant claiming to be aggrieved by introduction of damaging evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Willie Walker, Jr. v. United States

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.