Corder v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Ajabu v. State (1998), Boyd v. State (1986)
29 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 Roberts v. State · Wilson v. State · Collins v. Bair · Liston v. State · Walker 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'There are two basic requirements that must be established before the [excited utterance] exception applies. First, there must be a startling or exciting event that renders reflective thought inoperative. Second, the statement must be the spontaneous result of the event and not the result of reflective thought.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Goolsby v. State · King v. State“The physician/client privilege applies only to those communications necessary to treatment or to diagnosis looking toward treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re C.P. · Matter of CP“where such sentence is manifestly unreasonable in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender. A sentence is not manifestly unreasonable unless no reasonable person could find such sentence appropriate to the particular offense and offender for which such sentence was imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State
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.