Barger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Hardin v. State (1993), Stevens v. State (1997)
42 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 Maldonado v. State · Alfaro v. State · People v. Jennes · State v. Robbins · Akins v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inconceivable that the legislature intended”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Baber v. State · Conner v. State“[F]or most of this century, the legislature has enacted and reaffirmed a consistent public policy aimed at punishing offenders more harshly when the offenders commit crimes against younger children. Younger children are more in need of protection; they are less likely to be able to defend themselves and are more susceptible to adult suggestion and schemes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. CDH v. State · Stevens v. State“[i]f possible ... should be allowed to perform their intended mission as shown by the existing evils intended to be remedied[,]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker v. State · Conner v. State
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.