Arnold v. Higa’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Williams v. State (1997), State v. Schoonmaker (2008)
31 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Chung v. Ogata
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court's authority to approve funds for investigatory services for a defendant with private counsel”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.