Staton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 1992
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Case v. State · Penley v. State · Neal v. State · Attorney General v. School Committee of Northampton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Are these crimes so strikingly similar that one can say with reasonable certainty that one and the same person committed them?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State · Jaske v. State“our cases recognize two branches of the 'common scheme or plan' exception, the first permitting proof of identity by showing the defendant committed other crimes with identical modus operandi, and the second permitting proof of an uncharged crime as evidence of a preconceived plan which included the charged crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jaske 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.