State v. Champagne’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State v. Smith (1999), State v. Wright (1999)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Medlin v. Mann · Mabry v. Johnson · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Co. · Mucci v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Whether the intended purpose for offering the other acts evidence is relevant to some material issue in the case (factual relevancy); and (2) Whether the probative value of the evidence is substantially outweighed by its prejudicial effect (legal relevancy).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White · State v. Steichen“`[C]ommon plan, design or scheme' refers to a larger continuing plan, scheme or conspiracy of which the present crime charged at trial is only a part and which is often relevant to show motive, intent, knowledge or identity.”
2 later decisions 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.