State v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2020
15 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 United States v. Neff · Commonwealth v. Simione · Commonwealth v. Harvard · Roy v. State · State v. Kelsey
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Kelsey , the defendant was charged with the knowing and illegal distribution of a dangerous drug. That charge permitted proof of any act which fell within the statutory definition of “distribute” contained in HRS Sec. 712-1240(11). As a consequence, although the evidence showed that the defendant had not acted for himself but for an undercover police agent, he was not entitled to a judgment of acquittal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kim“We agree with the substantial body of eases which have held that to sell does not mean to buy and that one who acts as the agent of the buyer to effect a purchase of a drug with the buyer’s funds does not commit the offense of selling the drug.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rullman“the State is limited to proving the particulars specified in the bill.” (Citations omitted.) Recognizing that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Davalos
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.