State v. Batzer’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 1994
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Wayte v. United States · Durfee v. Rod Baxter Imports, Inc. · Stern v. Dill · State v. Wingo
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By substantive rights the legislature was referring to statutes which declare what acts are crimes and prescribe punishment for their violation, rather than statutes which regulate the steps by which the guilt or innocence of one who is accused of violating a criminal statute is determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.