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1983

Citation profile

72
cited by 72 later decisions
1
states following
July 2016
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 69 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 695 So. 2d 70 - Bush v. State (1996), Ex Parte Arthur (1985)

2 federal appellate · 69 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Easton v. United States · State v. Barfield · Mason v. State

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

  1. “(1) Relevancy to prove physical capacity, skill, or means to commit the now-charged crime; (2) part of the res gestae or part of a continuous transaction; (3) relevancy to prove scienter or guilty knowledge; (4) relevancy to prove criminal intent; (5) relevancy to prove plan, design, scheme, or system; (6) relevancy to prove motive; (7) relevancy to prove identity; (8) relevancy to rebut special defenses; and (9) relevancy in various particular crimes.”
    13 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “exhibit such a great degree of similarity that anyone viewing the two offenses would naturally assume them to have been committed by the same person.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “'The added element, then, must be, not merely a similarity in the results, but such a concurrence of common features that the various acts are naturally to be explained as caused by a general plan of which they are the individual manifestations. '”
    8 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.