State v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2025
20 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 Sorrells v. United States · 110 Ohio App. 415 - State v. Good · 27 Utah 2d 276 - State v. Anderson · 13 Utah 2d 148 - State v. Pacheco · 19 Utah 2d 421 - State v. Perkins
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is ... to be kept in mind that the burden of proving the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is always upon the state: both initially and ultimately. Therefore, the only requirement on the defense ... is that it be sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Where it is known or suspected that a person is engaged in criminal activities, or is desiring to do so, it is not an entrapment to provide an opportunity for such person to carry out his criminal intentions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torres“under this conflicting evidence the problem of entrapment was a question of fact, which depended upon the credibility of the witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Casias
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.