State v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Fuller (2000), State v. Barber (2001)
35 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 State v. Golding · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · State v. Whelan · Williams Ford, Inc. v. Hartford Courant Co. · Connecticut v. Porter
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the general rationale of Whelan concerning written statements also applies to tape-recorded statements ... [and that] the requirement that such statements be signed is unnecessary because the recording of the witness' voice imparts the same measure of reliability as a signature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“some measure of descriptive evidence from which the jury may properly infer the barrel length is necessary in order for the state to satisfy its burden of proof”
1 later decision 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.