State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2006
7 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 Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · 11 Cal. 3d 59 - People v. Superior Court (On Tai Ho) · Monroe v. Monroe · Federal Power Commission v. Florida Power & Light Co. · State v. Leonardis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because hearings of this nature are not full adversary proceedings and tend to be less formal, strict rules of evidence do not apply. . . . Thus, hearsay evidence which is both supported and reliable is fully admissible and available to the court when rendering its decision. . . . Moreover, where . . . as here, the content of the hearsay testimony was admitted without objection, it became and remains evidence in the case, subject, of course, to any infirmative suggestions due to its inherent weakness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the mere arrest of a defendant, without more is an insufficient ground for revoking the defendant's eligibility for dismissal of charges pursuant to the accelerated rehabilitation program.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the pivotal issue . . . is whether mere arrest on undisposed charges provides a sufficient base from which to conclude that the defendant violated a criminal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.