State v. DeLong’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Getz v. State (1988), State v. Williams (1994)
42 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · North Carolina v. Butler · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · State v. Barry · State v. True
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[in] a case involving an alleged sexual offense, evidence of prior or subsequent similar acts between the parties may be admissible to show “the relationship between the parties that in turn sheds light on defendant’s motive (i.e., attraction to the victim), intent (i.e., absence of mistake), and opportunity (i.e., domination of the victim) to commit the crime with which he was charged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Nadeau“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he presiding justice has broad discretion in ruling on the admissibility of evidence challenged as unfairly prejudicial; review of such rulings focuses on whether there was an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roman
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.