State v. Wargo’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Wargo (2000), State v. Cator (2001)
26 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 Smith v. Phillips · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Attwood v. Singletary · Marino v. Ortiz · State v. Williams
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Joan Alexander, Assistant State’s Attorney]: And in that phone conversation, did you bring up the topic of [the victim's] divorce? “[Ellis]: Yes. “[Assistant State’s Attorney]: And did she indicate to you whether or not [they] were going to be reconciled? “[Ellis]: She said absolutely not, that they were not going to reconcile. She was going ahead with the divorce and that was her final decision. “[Assistant State’s Attorney]: And did she indicate to you anything regarding her concerns or fears of the defendant? . . . “[Ellis]: Her biggest fear was that if it hadn’t been for [their daughter] waking up the night things got out of hand, as [the defendant] stated to me prior, that she felt if [their daughter] hadn’t woken up that night that she would have been dead then.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wargo
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.