State v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Getsy (1998), Takacs v. Engle (1985)
3 federal appellate · 93 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · State v. Melchior · 43 Cal. App. 3d 823 - People v. Lovercamp · State v. Robinson · State v. Barker
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court may refuse to give an instruction which is not applicable to the evidence governing the case * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * sense of a present, imminent, immediate and impending death or serious bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Steen“burden of going forward with evidence of a nature and quality sufficient to raise”
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.