Bedgood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Lannan v. State (1992), State v. Wareham (1989)
38 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 Magley v. State · Lawrence v. State · Brown v. State · Cobbs v. State · Cook 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such evidence may be admissible despite its tendency to show bad character or criminal propensity, if it makes the existence of an element of the crime charged more probable than it would be without such evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Butcher v. State · Sloan v. State“such evidence may properly be introduced for the purpose of showing intent, motive, purpose, identity, or a common scheme or plan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. State · Lannan 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.