State v. Berg’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2014
7 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 27 Utah 2d 326 - State v. Kasai · State v. Fertig · State v. Comish · State v. Foust
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A purchaser of a controlled substance commits the offense of `possession.' One guilty of that offense ... is not an accomplice to the crime committed by the seller.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Celestine“A conviction may be had on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith
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.