State v. Basham’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2016
12 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. Basham · State v. Gonzales · State v. Weber · State v. Fields · State v. Thoe
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The theory which underlies admission of such evidence is that if a defendant consistently makes the same promise to a number of victims, and, after obtaining the victim’s money, consistently fails to perform, it may be fairly inferred from the pattern of behavior that no mischance could reasonably explain all the failures of performance. Thus, a strong presumption exists that the defendant must have intended not to perform in any instance and particularly in the situation in which he has been charged. Before this evidentiary strategy may be used, however, it is essential that the behavioral attributes of the other activities be unequivocal and sufficiently similar to the offense charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tidlund
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.