State v. Singh’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably Boliek v. Missouri (1986), Lenza v. Wyrick (1981)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 Shepard v. United States · 53 Cal. 2d 160 - People v. Atchley · United States v. Brown · State v. Patriarca · Commonwealth v. Borodine
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether such declarations are admitted because their use for that purpose does not fall within the proscription of the hearsay rule or as an exception to that rule is not clearly defined.” However, quoting United States v. Brown, 160 U.S.App.D.C. 190, 195 , 490 F.2d 758, 763 (1973), he chose not to answer that question saying,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kennedy“A distinction is often drawn between direct assertions of a state of mind (I am afraid of X) and statements which inferentially establish a state of mind (I won’t go near X). The former is said to be hearsay and is admitted as an exception to the rule. The latter is said not to be hearsay and is thereby admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Isaiah“[T]he courts have developed three rather well-defined categories in which the relevancy of such statements of fear is established. These include cases involving defenses of self-defense, suicide of the decedent, and accidental death. United States v. Brown, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kennedy
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.