State v. Vestal’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
November 2011
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. State · State v. Bradbury · Adams v. Monroe County Quarterly Court · State v. Northcutt · State v. Hartzler
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And the Grand Jurors aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid, do further present and say that the said DEBORAH MAE FURLOUGH ... heretofore on or about the 6th day of September, 1987, in the County and State aforesaid, did unlawfully, willfully and unnecessarily, and in an improper manner, abandon the body of Leonard D. Furlough by burying his body in a shallow grave and leaving it there without notifying anyone, against the peace and dignity of the State of Tennessee. 39-6-702. /s/ Lawrence Ray Whitley”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Furlough
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.