State v. Knoefler’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2004
14 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. Erwin · State v. Johnson · State v. Cazier · State v. Jessup
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... the requirement of independent proof of the corpus delicti requires only that the State present evidence that the injury specified in the crime occurred, and that such injury was caused by someone’s criminal conduct. . .. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hansen · State v. Chesnut“the connection of the accused with the crime need not be proven to establish the corpus delicti”
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.