State v. Helm’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2000
7 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. Young · 24 Utah 2d 255 - State v. Schad · 15 Utah 2d 162 - State v. Sinclair · 1 Utah 2d 117 - State v. Fedder · 28 Utah 2d 96 - State v. Gee
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits a felony of the second degree if, believing that an official proceeding or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, he: (1) Alters, destroys, conceals, or removes anything with a purpose to impair its verity or availability in the proceeding or investigation....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eaton · State v. Gonzales“[T]hat there was an official investigation under way; that the defendant ... took possession of evidence relating to it; and that nothing further was seen or heard of it ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eaton · State v. Gonzales“was calculated to be for [the defendant's] possible benefit in determining whether he should be placed on probation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Janis · State v. Tyree
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.